1. 1 st Winter Summit at the Anatolian Summit “Collaborative Projects on Tourizm, Sport, Bio-Diversity and Global Change” VEGETABLES B İ OD İ VERS İ TY İ N GEORG İ A Tınatın Epıtashvılı Academy of Agrıcultural Scıences of Georgıa Georgian Agrarian University 23-36 February, Erzurum, Turkey

2. In the world about 1200 varieties are belong to the vegetables, which are include in the 78 families. Many of them are cultural plants, while the rest of the wild relatives. 70 varieties of vegetables are producing in Georgia, including some of them are very small quantities.

3. A vegetable for human nutrition is a necessary product. Nowadays, Georgia occupied approximately 886 766 ha of land area, from which vegetables occupied 30 728 ha of vegetables, by kitchen garden -20 272 ha /BY STATİSTİCAL DATA /. Ration in human by the research data ¼ part to hold various kinds of vegetable consumption. People need to use during the year 125- 140 kg of vegetables and kitchen garden product.

4. Biodiversity of local vegetables are characterized with high content of elements, such as vitamins, salts, organic acids and other element. They also have high values of food and diet. They contain large amount of potassium, sodium, calcium salts, have the ability to neutralize increased acidity of multiply products or fleshy. Some vegetables, like onions and garlic contain many pithoncides, which have high bactericidal properties.

5. In Georgia, vegetables produced in the both soil conditions: open and protected areas (greenhouses), and to this last one pay big attention in maintenance with new vegetables in fall-winter and early spring, but the main supplier of vegetables on market is open ground and especial attention is paid to its production. Vegetables – it is a collection of different types of plants (differ vegetative and reproductive organs), which are joint in the different families and are differs from each other by biological features, producing technology and methods of use.

6. In terms of food, vegetables with their different nature of vegetative organs are divided into the following groups:  Fruits - cultures of the young fruits are used for food (cucumber, Vegetable marrow, bush pumpkin, eggplant, kitchen garden peas, beans, legumes, sweet corn),  And ripe fruit (tomato, watermelon, melon, pumpkin),  Leafy (cabbage, beet leaf - alfalfa, lettuce, watercress, spinach, rhubarb, sorrel, leaf parsley and celery, leaf mustard, perennial onion),  Like onions (onions, leeks, garlic),  Root vegetables (carrot, table beet, black radish, the radish, swedes, turnips, parsley and celery),  Root crops (early potatoes),  Leafy fruits (kohlrabi),  Proliferations’ (cauliflower, broccoli, etc.),  Fungus / mushrooms / etc

11. THE ABOVE VEGETABLES BELONGING TO THE DIFFERENT BOTANICAL SPECIES, WHICH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FAMILIES:  Crusaders (cabbage, swedes, turnips, black radish, the radish, Chinese radish, mustard),  Umbrelacea (carrots, parsley, celery, coriander, Pasternak),  Pumpkin crop (cucumber, watermelon, melon, pumpkin, patison),  Solanaceae (tomato, pepper, eggplant, potatoes, fizalis),  Legumes (peas, beans),  Composites (salad, tarragon, Artichoke),  Liliaceae (onions, leeks, garlic),  Cereals (vegetable garden sweet corn).

12. 18TH CENTURY`S H İ STOR İ AN AND GEOGRAPHER VAKHUSHT İ BAGRAT İ ON İ N H İ S WORK,” THE GEOGRAPH İ CAL DESCR İ PT İ ON OF GEORG İ A'' - MENT İ ONED GEORG İ A, AS A LOT OF VEGETABLE B İ OD İ VERS İ TY, THE SELECT İ ON OF FOLK SPEC İ ES; CABBAGE CROP HEADED CABBAGE, ON İ ONS, ROOT CROP, PUMPK İ N CROP, LEGUMES, GREENS. BY IVANE JAVAKH İ SHV İ L İ (1934) MANY SPEC İ ES OF VEGETABLEs are wild OR İ G İ N. In Georgia many centuries ago there were brought vegetables and has been grown: WATERMELON, MELON, PUMPK İ N, CUCUMBER, AND ON İ ON, GARL İ C, RAD İ SH, EGGPLANT, CABBAGE. In Georgıa receıved above noted varıetıes and has been located ın the Instıtute of Farmıng Plant genetıc resources Gene Bank, which has been created with financial support ICARDA (INTERNAT İ ONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGR İ CULTURAL RESEARCH İ N DRY Areas). CURRENTLY, 3000 - MORE THAN SEED STORED İ N GENTBANK, 600 OF THEM - MORE THAN A VEGETABLE SEED MATER İ AL, THE PURPOSE OF SC İ ENT İ F İ C RESEARCH İ N THE AREAS İ NVOLVED.

13. Georgia is a member country of the – CACVEG – network of the research and development of vegetables, which was created in 2006, and collaborate with AVRDC - world center of vegetables with mediatorate of Georgian Agrarian University’s I.Lomouri farming institute. In 2007-2011 from the AVRDC by the Institute request are recievd more than 60 varieties of tomato, sweet pepper, mosh, vegetable garden Pea, vegetable garden soy-bean, vegetable garden beans, Chinese cabbage. All of this leads to the increase of biodiversity.

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