Baklanın (Vicia faba L.) Dünya ve Türkiye ekonomisindekiyeri ve önemi

SUMMARYFaba bean, as well as other edible legumes grains since it contains a high proportion of protein consumed as both dry andfresh, is a valuable source of vegetable protein. It is also good rotation legumes plant fixed nitrogen to soil. In our country, fababean takes the fourth place in edible legumes after lentil, chickpea and fieldbean with regard to sowing area and production. It iscultivated from the Mediterranean shore area to the Black Sea shore area in Turkey. However, it is produced almost 80 % in TheAegean, The Mediterranean and The Marmara regions. Faba bean farming- countries in the world for dry and fresh bean, Turkeyis ranked in the last order in terms of sowing area and production. The faba bean production has been declined due to high cost ofproduction, climatic fluctuations and low prices of faba bean in recent y ears.KEY WORDS: Faba bean, faba bean production, legumes trade.