CHP Tekirdağ Deputy Dr. İlhami Özcan Aygun said that farmers should be given urgent support to avoid food shortages in the epidemic of the corona virus.
Indicating that if the farmer is not supported, the risk of starving as a society will be faced, Aygun said that this year there will be problems in potato and rice production and that the danger bells have started to ring in wheat.
There is a risk of food scarcity
Dr. Aygun said that while the corona virus epidemic should be supported by farmers in order to avoid food shortages, the farmer was sentenced to hunger, 2020 agricultural support should be given, while payments in 2019 could be made more recently, and those payments were blocked in banks to receive support from farmers with electricity debts.
Aygün stated that they could not get the support of diesel oil, fertilizer, premium or cut off in return for their debt, since they were blocked because they could not earn money. Aygun said, “The farmer is in a dead end with the corona virus epidemic.
The farmer in debt-fee now has to cover hygiene costs. After the health sector, the most vital sector is the food sector. “If we don’t support the farmer, we will be hungry, soon everyone will understand when the shelves are empty.”
RICE IN RICE AND PATATHE
This year, CHP Tekirdağ Millevtekili Aygun, who warned that there may be up to 20 percent product loss in potatoes due to cold, low rainfall and drought, stated that rice production is not allowed in paddy fields in Thrace due to water shortage and drought.
Aygun said, “Our country, which is a net importer of rice, faces the risk of not importing from abroad in the epidemic environment. All countries are concerned with the satisfaction of their own country’s wife. ”
Ilhami Ozcan Aygun
TURKEY GRAIN would suffer in
CHP Tekirdağ Deputy Dr. Ilhami Ozcan Aygun, who in 2001 was 19 million tons of wheat production in Turkey’s population is 66.4, the population reached 83.1 million in 2019. Although the production of 19 million tons, he noted limited thick.
Aygün said, “We are not enough in wheat, red beans, corn, barley, lentils and sunflower. In the first 11 months of 2019, 26.474 tons of dry beans, 862 thousand tons of cotton and 273.873 tons of lentils were imported.
9.8 million tons of imports were made in 2019, which we claim to be sufficient. This figure is 52 percent of the production, which is 19 million tons. Turkey is not self-sufficient in wheat, “he said.
