The Polytunnels of Patara

 

'What I did spot however (all around Patara in particular) were acres and acres of polytunnels. Nothing was growing in them in July, but it was clear that they had nurtured almost exclusively tomatoes.
They were a complete eye-sore (like they are in the UK, but there were just so many more of them. The rueful reflection was an obvious one: the desire of western consumers to have food out of season, and the desire of the Turkish agriculture industry to make extra money by producing food out of season, has ended up with swathes of its wonderfully beautiful countryside covered in ugly plastic boxes.
It looks like half the world's (out of season) tomatoes come from here.'
Mary Beard, a Don's Life, Timesonline, 30.7.14

Turkey is the world's second largest producer of strawberries after USA with 7% of world production.