Last year, 12.7 billion Turkish liras that provided in support of the farmer, only "diesel tax" was taken back from farmers exactly 10 billion liras.
With the 21st article of the Agriculture Act issued in 2016, the provision that the agricultural support to be provided would not be less than 1 percent of the national income. However, this promise has never been fulfilled and it has been observed between 0.4 and 0.6 ... So much so that the support given to the farmer was often lower than the figures obtained from the farmers.
Production is running low and imports are rising!
Suleyman Girmen, Seyhan Chamber of Agriculture Chairman of the most important agricultural area of our country, pointed out that imports increased with the farmer's departure from agricultural production. "The fact that the farmer is away from agricultural production and the agricultural land is not used in production makes him feel obvious in agricultural product foreign trade. Today, the rural areas have been abandoned and left old. Policies aimed at returning to these areas without government abandonment of the government's brutal policies will be nothing but waste of resources.
The numbers say 'no support' ...
In 2017, the farmers' support payment was 12.7 billion TL, but according to the law, the payment to be made should be 30.4 billion TL.
This situation has not changed for the year 2018. While the share allocated for budget support is 14.5 billion TL, the amount to be given is 34.5 billion TL.
The government's promise of 'halfway to the state of diesel' just caused a short-lived affection. Because farmers use 3.5 billion liters of diesel for agricultural production. The average price of diesel 2017 can be calculated as 4,84 TL.
In this case, our farmers have paid about 17 billion TL. If approximately 60 percent of this amount is considered as tax, approximately 10 billion TL is the tax amount.
It is clear that 10 billion TL of agricultural support amounting to 12.7 billion TL given to the farmers in 2017 has been taken back with only one of the supports used by the farmer in agriculture production.
When we look at these data, the state does not support farmers but the farmers have supported the state.
The rural area remained old
"Today, the rural areas have been abandoned and left old. Policies aimed at returning to these areas without abandoning the policies of the government's bastard will be nothing but waste of resources. There are 33 sugar factories in our country, 25 of which belong to the state and 14 of the state belong to the privatization stage. They justify harm. When examined in detail, it is seen that factories suffered losses due to not being able to find enough beets, yet they profit a lot. The problem then arises from the fact that the resulting farming policies can not produce enough beets. The solution is to promote sugar beet production, not privatization. Each customization result will be filled with sugar-based starch sugar, some of which will be closed immediately, and some will be closed after 5 years due to the required commitment. From these facts, the sugar maker should be supported and sugar factories should not be privatized."