My land and field

What can I grow?

For your village: crops that hold up in a dry year, and irrigation that uses less water

Choose your village. For 15 crops, the water used from sowing to harvest is worked out with your village's weather; the page shows how much of it the rain covers in a normal year and in the driest of the last 30 years, and the irrigation need left per decare (1,000 m²). The list starts with the crop that needs the least water in a dry year.

Irrigation methods: for the same need, drip irrigation puts a third less water on the field than surface irrigation (FAO field application efficiency: surface 60%, sprinkler 75%, drip 90%). Month-by-month detail: Water my field needs

Summary

Choose your village: for 15 crops, see how much of their water your village's rain covers in a normal and in the driest year, and the irrigation left per decare, starting with the crop that needs least. Province pages (in Turkish) group 21 FAO crops.

Province pages (in Turkish)

Each province page compares the FAO water need range of 21 field crops with the province's yearly rain normal (CHIRPS 1991-2020) and lists the crops in three groups: rain only, with irrigation, hard in this province. 81 provinces.

Adana741 mm/year
Adıyaman595 mm/year
Afyonkarahisar519 mm/year
Ağrı481 mm/year
Aksaray404 mm/year
Amasya576 mm/year
Ankara508 mm/year
Antalya876 mm/year
Ardahan700 mm/year
Artvin1,215 mm/year
Aydın712 mm/year
Balıkesir663 mm/year
Bartın1,235 mm/year
Batman658 mm/year
Bayburt597 mm/year
Bilecik575 mm/year
Bingöl825 mm/year
Bitlis772 mm/year
Bolu791 mm/year
Burdur590 mm/year
Bursa726 mm/year
Çanakkale708 mm/year
Çankırı542 mm/year
Çorum576 mm/year
Denizli684 mm/year
Diyarbakır653 mm/year
Düzce981 mm/year
Edirne723 mm/year
Elazığ580 mm/year
Erzincan621 mm/year
Erzurum577 mm/year
Eskişehir500 mm/year
Gaziantep577 mm/year
Giresun905 mm/year
Gümüşhane634 mm/year
Hakkari732 mm/year
Hatay896 mm/year
Iğdır335 mm/year
Isparta683 mm/year
İstanbul790 mm/year
İzmir687 mm/year
Kahramanmaraş624 mm/year
Karabük919 mm/year
Karaman638 mm/year
Kars577 mm/year
Kastamonu800 mm/year
Kayseri459 mm/year
Kırıkkale501 mm/year
Kırklareli725 mm/year
Kırşehir474 mm/year
Kilis544 mm/year
Kocaeli851 mm/year
Konya464 mm/year
Kütahya619 mm/year
Malatya510 mm/year
Manisa659 mm/year
Mardin575 mm/year
Mersin738 mm/year
Muğla976 mm/year
Muş648 mm/year
Nevşehir420 mm/year
Niğde555 mm/year
Ordu963 mm/year
Osmaniye898 mm/year
Rize1,855 mm/year
Sakarya865 mm/year
Samsun784 mm/year
Siirt823 mm/year
Sinop775 mm/year
Sivas522 mm/year
Şanlıurfa468 mm/year
Şırnak859 mm/year
Tekirdağ706 mm/year
Tokat619 mm/year
Trabzon1,060 mm/year
Tunceli775 mm/year
Uşak590 mm/year
Van518 mm/year
Yalova828 mm/year
Yozgat535 mm/year
Zonguldak1,285 mm/year

Province rule, FAO crop table and sourcesFAO Table 5 · CHIRPS normal

Rule: The province's yearly rain normal R (mm; the sum of the CHIRPS 1991–2020 monthly normals); the crop's FAO range [a, b] (mm per growing season). If R ≥ b the crop is in the “rain only” group; if a ≤ R < b, “with irrigation”; if R < a, “hard in this province”. 1 mm of rain × 1 decare (1,000 m²) = 1 m³ = 1 tonne, so the mm values are also m³ per decare. There is no other rule.

FAO Table 5: water need of crops over the growing season
Crop (FAO name)	Need (mm per growing season)	Middle value (m³/decare)
Alfalfa	800–1,600	1,200
Banana	1,200–2,200	1,700
Barley/Oats/Wheat	450–650	550
Bean	300–500	400
Cabbage	350–500	425
Citrus	900–1,200	1,050
Cotton	700–1,300	1,000
Maize	500–800	650
Melon	400–600	500
Onion	350–550	450
Peanut	500–700	600
Pea	350–500	425
Pepper	600–900	750
Potato	500–700	600
Rice (paddy)	450–700	575
Sorghum/Millet	450–650	550
Soybean	450–700	575
Sugarbeet	550–750	650
Sugarcane	1,500–2,500	2,000
Sunflower	600–1,000	800
Tomato	400–800	600

Source: FAO, Irrigation Water Management: Training Manual No. 3 (Brouwer & Heibloem, 1986), Table 5, “Approximate values of seasonal crop water needs” — https://www.fao.org/4/s2022e/s2022e02.htm (accessed 25 October 2026). The table's 21 crops are taken as they are; nothing is added.

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Rain normal: CHIRPS v3.0 (UCSB Climate Hazards Center) — CC BY 4.0 (chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps3: "licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License"); 0.05° (~5 km); sum of the 1991-2020 monthly normals (normal computed by the site with the same CHIRPS v3.0 method; MGM data was not used); data produced 5 November 2026. Limits: 0.05° cells (~5 km): in very small provinces the effect of neighbouring areas is smaller but remains; basin boundaries come from an unofficial source; in yearly totals the current year is partial; preliminary months may change with the final product.

General information for the province as a whole; soil and irrigation conditions are determined on site.