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Diyarbakır farmers say 'interest rates more lucrative than agriculture'

Diyarbakır farmers say 'interest rates more lucrative than agriculture'

"The economy minister says they will reduce inflation. Are they planning to do this by impoverishing farmers?” says a farmer.

21 August 2024 Mizgin Tabu

Farmers' debt to banks increased by 80% in one year, surpassing 590 billion lira

Farmers' debt to banks increased by 80% in one year, surpassing 590 billion lira

CHP Niğde Deputy Ömer Fethi Gürer stated that the increase in debt in one year amounted to 261 billion lira and said, "Farmers, grappling with dozens of problems such as the increase in the cost of feed, fuel, electricity used for agricultural purposes, feed, fertilizer, labor costs, and the inability to sell their products, have started to either move away from agriculture or borrow from banks."

9 February 2024

Debt of farmers in Turkey reached record highs in 2021, warns opposition MP

Debt of farmers in Turkey reached record highs in 2021, warns opposition MP

The number of farmers who received a document of insolvency has exceeded 21,000, according to an Agricultural Credit Cooperatives report.

CHP warns of a food crisis in Turkey, urges an intervention in fertilizer prices

CHP warns of a food crisis in Turkey, urges an intervention in fertilizer prices

Main opposition CHP MP Gürer has raised concerns that the abnormal increase in the prices of fertilizers may drive Turkey into a food crisis, calling on the authorities to intervene in fertilizer prices as soon as possible and introduce the necessary discounts.

10 December 2021

Main opposition CHP MP criticizes agriculture’s share in 2022 draft budget

‘BUDGET OF POVERTY FOR FARMERS’

Main opposition CHP MP criticizes agriculture’s share in 2022 draft budget

CHP Bursa MP Orhan Sarıbal defines the share to be allocated to farmers in the 2022 budget as “the budget of a new migration for farmers who do not produce and leave their homes and lands.”

21 October 2021

Farmers protest power cuts with tractors in Urfa

Farmers protest power cuts with tractors in Urfa

Closing the Urfa-Mardin Highway to traffic in southeast Turkey in protest against the power cuts of the Dicle Electricity Distribution Inc. (DEDAŞ), farmers have been subjected to the intervention of the gendarmerie with pepper gas.

Unable to sell their crops during lockdown, farmers send them to garbage

Unable to sell their crops during lockdown, farmers send them to garbage

Farmers' Union Chair Ali Bülent Erdem has stated that the "complete lockdown" was an example of a complete lack of planning and said, "At least the farmers should have been supported in such a period."

7 May 2021 Hikmet Adal

‘Turkey's Economic Reform Package makes no mention of farmers’

CHP’S SARIBAL

‘Turkey's Economic Reform Package makes no mention of farmers’

Main opposition CHP MP Orhan Sarıbal has criticized the recently unveiled Economic Reform Package for failing to address the problems of farmers: “The AKP has discarded both agriculture and farmers.”

‘Farmers’ debt has increased by 72 times in AKP rule’

CHP MP AYHAN BARUT

‘Farmers’ debt has increased by 72 times in AKP rule’

Main opposition CHP MP Barut has slammed President and AKP Chair Erdoğan over his statement, “We, as Turkey, have started to rent land in different places.” Barut has raised concerns about the current state of agriculture and farmers in Turkey.

29 December 2020

Farmers: We are Worried, Like Everyone

COVID-19

Farmers: We are Worried, Like Everyone

Speaking to bianet, farmers say that they are having difficulties in production and their future is full of uncertainties amid coronavirus outbreak. Facing several hardships from finding workers to distributing products, farmers are worried.

7 April 2020 Hikmet Adal

‘If We Cannot Ensure Planting, a Crisis Might Arise in Agriculture’

CORONAVIRUS

‘If We Cannot Ensure Planting, a Crisis Might Arise in Agriculture’

Noting that the season has opened for planting vegetable seeds and seedlings, CHP MP Gürer says, “Farmers cannot go out due to the coronavirus outbreak. The uncertainty makes farmers descend into pessimism.”

2 April 2020 Hikmet Adal