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(Many people ask about this. Those who want to contact the producer Süleyman uncle and ask questions about production can send an e-mail to [email protected] with their phone number. I will try to get back to you when I can.) If you don't believe it, look it up on the internet for 2 thousand liras per kilo! With the increase in input prices in recent years, some of the farmers have given up on production and are looking for jobs in other sectors, while others are looking for alternative products. Süleyman Yüksel, known as the 'grandfather salep', 75 years old in Denizli, devoted himself to salep production after his retirement. Yüksel, who continues the salep production he started on his 500 square meter land in Sümer Neighborhood, had quite a hard time at first because he worked with the trial and error method. Stating that he produces Arılı, Selepiyas, Barleya, Kum salep and Santamariya varieties of salep, Yüksel states that a kilogram of salep tuber is sold for 150-200 TL, and a kilogram of pure powdered salep is sold for 1,500-2,000 TL. Süleyman Yüksel claims that the person who plants two acres of salep for two years will become rich.