Farmer is punished for ‘why you planted’

Exposing the public to food surges and food safety risks, the government is now forcing farmers to plan their crops with a stick. According to the bill submitted by the AKP deputies to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and discussed in the Agriculture Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture will announce which farmer in the region will plant which agricultural product and in what quantity, depending on the situation of supply and demand.

The farmer will not be able to sow in his field any product that is not the one announced in his region. The farmer who deviates from the plan and plants another crop will first be warned in writing. Despite the warning, the farmer who does not comply with the plan in 12 months will not benefit from any support program for 5 years.

If the farmer continues to plant different crops in the second year, he will be fined between 1 and 5 percent of the annual gross product of the product he has obtained.

IYI party MP Fahrettin Yokus, who criticized the arrangement, said: “You can’t hit a farmer because he didn’t plant what you wanted.”

‘YOU CAN’T GET PUNISHMENT’

Suggesting that planning should be done with incentives, not punishments, Yokuş said: “Oh farmer, we will tell you: ‘Plant that produce.’ If you do otherwise, you will be punished with a stick. I am really surprised. Encourage instead of punish brother You can’t explain the punishment to the farmer. I will go to Konya tomorrow and tell him: ‘My brother, he will impose on you, bet whether it is worth it or not, then he will say, I will punish you and beat you for not doing this.’ punish the farmer or the villager, you can’t impose a penalty,” he said.CHP and HDP MPs also suggested that planning should be done with incentives, not punishments.

The farmer calculates the loss, not the gain

Deputy Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ebubekir Secretgider said his aim was not to punish the farmer. Noting that a series of developments such as climate change, drought and population growth have made product planning mandatory, Zengingider said: “There is a danger of sustainability in agriculture, the risk of transferring the product to future generations. in a healthy way. We have now reached a process where the profit is not calculated by the producer, but the loss in which the year is calculated. “This is the best solution we could find,” he said.