The Minister of Agriculture announced as good news: The farmer cannot benefit from these supports.
This year, the diesel and fertilizer support that the farmer must receive for grain products would not be paid in cash. A limit equal to the amount of support will be charged to any Ziraat Bank card; The bank would make this amount of support available to the farmer in the form of a loan.
However, there are complaints from farmers that they cannot use the support that will be given in the form of this loan.
The farmers, who are blacklisted because they cannot pay their debts, say that when they log into Ziraat Bank’s system, they receive a “negative customer credit score” response.
Farmer Halil Kaya said: “Our farmers come to the Ziraat bank with hope. “They’re coming back out the door because of their low credit score,” he said.
THE MINISTER ANNOUNCES THAT HE WAS ADVANCED 5 MONTHS, AS ‘GOBILITY’
The Presidential Decision on Agricultural Support to be carried out in 2022 was published in the Official Gazette dated October 20, 2022, and in the resolution; It was announced that support for diesel and fertilizers for wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticale and rice was brought forward 5 months.
the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Vahit Kirişci, presenting his ministry’s budget at the Parliamentary Plan and Budget Committee; He gave the good news that loan applications for diesel and fertilizer through Ziraat Bank started from October 31.
Kirişci said: “From now on, these supports will not be given to our farmers in cash. It will be charged to Ziraat Bank cards. Applications have started from today, including Internet and mobile banking.
However, growers applying for diesel and fertilizer support from the Ziraat Bank system complain that they face a “negative customer credit rating” response in the system they enter, and therefore are not can benefit from support.
‘WE WILL GET AHEAD OF THE SUPPORT, THEY DON’T EVEN GIVE IT’
Mehmet Kani, a farmer from Izmir, said: “Is this grain support? Everyone is blacklisted by banks because of the fact that agriculture has become like this.
What did our economy minister say before? ‘Ziraat Bank will not see the blacklist’. So how do you not see it? I showed the example, everyone is blacklisted. Much less the loan, they are going to give us the support that they are going to give us as an advance, nor can we get it”.
‘WE HAVE 60 PEOPLE IN OUR GROUP, AND WE CAN’T GET 60’
Explaining that there is no point in advancing support payments for 5 months, Kani said, “There are 60 people in the phone group we formed with the farmers, and 60 of them couldn’t get this loan.”
“We have to do it, we will get it done on time, right in March. “Look at the situation you got us into,” says Kani. That’s it for their farm policy,” she said.
‘LOW CREDIT SCORES, THEY ARE GOING BACK THROUGH THE DOOR’
Halil Kaya, a producer from Çanakkale, said:
“Our farmers with good agricultural records and high credit ratings will be able to benefit from this situation. However, those with a bad credit score will not be able to benefit from this situation.
Since our farmers, who are already in trouble, have poor credit ratings, they need to seed their fields as soon as possible and get their diesel and fertilizer. This mistake must be reversed and our minister must extend a helping hand to farmers with bad records, otherwise our farmers will not have the strength to wait until March.
Due to rising input costs, farmers are already in a vortex with no way out and saying ‘we are making such an advance’, our farmers look to Ziraat Bank with hope.
They are already coming back from the door due to their low credit rating. Your Mobil Ziraat application is not approved. Fertilizer and diesel support must be paid to our farmers as soon as possible above the price in the summary.” (PHOENIX)
Source: Sozcu
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