Agriculture

 Various agricultural products are grown in the province, with the main agricultural products being wheat, barley, rice, rye, meslin, chickpeas, beans, sugar beets and cotton. The fruits grown are strawberries, apples, apricots, pears, olives, mulberries, peanuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, peanuts, pine nuts and especially grapes, which Kahramanmaraş is famous for. Among the vegetables, tomato, pepper, cabbage, onion, zucchini and cucumber are mostly grown. Kahramanmaraş is especially renowned for its pepper plantations and hot red pepper. Cold storage warehouses, modern agricultural equipment, irrigation and fertilization are now widely used.