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Gümüşhacıköy treats Gümüşhacıköy district of Amasya Province as a hemp-growing area, from the 500 tonnes of 1939 and the rope and twine cooperative of 1970 to the contract sowings of 2024 and 2025. The region it belongs to is Black Sea Region (Turkey).
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Why the area is mapped
- Akpınar and Nizamoğlu (2019, p. 1233), from the Ministry of Agriculture's publication of 1939, give the average yearly hemp production of Gümüşhacıköy kaza as 500 tonnes. Baytop (1995) names Gümüşhacıköy among the Black Sea places where hemp was sown.
- Yetişir (2017, p. 119), chairman of the Gümüşhacıköy rope and twine cooperative, describes the hemp and hemp seed grown by the farmers of the district as among their main sources of income.
- Clarke (2023, p. 9) writes of the "Gümüşhaciköy region" of Amasya, where hemp has been grown for centuries.
Growing status
- The status is Active. Gazete Vatan (İHA, 23 October 2025) reports the Amasya provincial director of agriculture: of about 850 decares of hemp in the province in 2025, 500 were at the state farm of Gökhöyük and the rest was sown under contract by two firms in Gümüşhacıköy and Hamamözü districts. The article gives no area for each district and does not say whether the crop was for fibre or seed.
- Clarke (2023, p. 9) also reports nearly 2,500 hectares in the region in 2000.
- Growing had stopped for a time before then. At the workshop on Black Sea fibre crops in Samsun on 5–6 May 2017, the cooperative's chairman said that no hemp was being produced at the time and that no seed was to be had (proceedings, p. 128), and the closing speaker regretted that no seed stock was left because hemp was no longer grown in Gümüşhacıköy (p. 139). No source read gives the year growing stopped.
- In a speech in the Grand National Assembly on 3 March 2026 the Amasya deputy Reşat Karagöz described the cooperative as working through contract production with the farmers of Gümüşhacıköy and Hamamözü.
How the border is drawn
- The border is Gümüşhacıköy district in OpenStreetMap (administrative relation 1724394), simplified, about 680 km². The sources name the kaza, the district and the "region" of Gümüşhacıköy; the modern district stands in for them.
- Hamamözü district, the neighbouring district named with Gümüşhacıköy for the contract sowings of 2025, is outside the border. Merzifon, named by Baytop, is outside it too.
- The map point (40.87, 35.21) is Gümüşhacıköy town.
Sources
- Clarke (2023), Akpınar and Nizamoğlu (2019) and Taşlıgil and Şahin (2019) are cited throughout; from the 2017 workshop proceedings, Yetişir's paper (pp. 119–122) and the discussion that mentions Gümüşhacıköy; the İHA report in Gazete Vatan (2025) and the Anadolu Ajansı report in Ekonomist (2023).
- Clarke's figure for 2000 comes from Tiret (2002), "Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) cultivation in north-central Turkey", Journal of Industrial Hemp 7(2): 73–81. Its full text is not open; its abstract names no place, area or year of visit.
- Savaş (1969), on Gümüşhacıköy's hemp seed, is cited through Taşlıgil and Şahin (p. 471); it was not seen.
- A blog post of 2020, copied into a university course file, says in the present tense that high-quality fibre is produced at Gümüşhacıköy. It gives no source and is not used.
Where the sources disagree
- The area in 2000. Clarke (2023, p. 9), after Tiret, gives nearly 2,500 hectares "reportedly grown" in the Gümüşhacıköy region in 2000. The national statistics in Taşlıgil and Şahin (2019, pp. 469 and 471) give Amasya Province, which takes in the district, 17 hectares and 19 tonnes of fibre that year. The article gives both.
- The factory. Yetişir (2017, pp. 119–121) gives the land bought in 1974 and the opening at the end of 1984; the Anadolu Ajansı report of 2023 dates the laying of the foundation to 1976; Karagöz (2026) has the machines brought from Italy in 1982. Yetişir puts the closure in 1986 after a change of board; Clarke (p. 9) writes that the factory was privatised in 1986 and closed when its Italian spinning machines could no longer be kept up. The article follows Yetişir, who chaired the cooperative.