While there was no solution to vegetable and fruit prices, the landing tents established in 2019 resulted in serious damage to Soil Products Office (TMO) and Agricultural Credit Cooperatives. In order to lower the potato and onion prices, the expensive products imported by TMO from abroad were sold at low prices in the arrangement tents and the damage of TMO was covered by the Treasury as public damage. Agricultural Credit Cooperatives also suffered by not being able to take money for the products they gave to municipalities.
PRODUCER CRUSHED UNDER INTEREST AND EXTRAORDINARY FERTILIZER PRICES
At this point, the government wants to solve the problem by directly increasing the number of Agricultural Credit markets in order to reduce the prices of vegetables and fruits. However, the government, which does not see the problem of high interest and expensive fertilizers in the Agricultural Credit Cooperatives, wants to reduce the prices of vegetables and fruits through the Agricultural Credit markets established entirely with the equity of the farmer is seen as a major contradiction.
LOAD IS ADDED TO THE FARMER
While the Agricultural Credit Markets, which were designed to sell the farmer's product directly to the citizens, were seriously damaged because they could not fulfill this function, increasing the number of Agricultural Credit Markets will cause the damage here to increase exponentially.
Agricultural Credit markets lost 1 million lira in 2018, while this loss increased by 40 times in 2019 to 40 million lira with the increase in the number of markets. The balance sheet of the Agricultural Credit markets regarding the profit and loss for 2020 is unknown. Since the losses of the markets are not covered by the Treasury as in TMO, the loss here is covered entirely from the farmer's equity.