If it goes on like this, we won’t be able to find meat even with our money.
Nihat Çelik, director of the Turkish Sheep and Goat Breeders Association (TÜDKİYEB), said meat production has not been able to meet demand and the increase in meat prices was due to low production. Stating that meat and milk cannot be found even with money, if urgent measures are not taken to increase animal existence and meat production, Çelik said: “Meat and milk do not grow by themselves. “Someone needs to produce, and those who produce need support,” he said.
VILLAGE MIGRATION SUPPORT PROJECT
Nihat Çelik stated that they prepared a new project aimed at increasing meat and milk production and submitted it to the Ministry of Agriculture. Stating that the disaster of the pandemic and the earthquake drove people away from the cities and started a reverse migration to the countryside, Çelik stated that the people who return to their village must become producers in the places where they were, as in the past. . Stating that with the project they presented to the Ministry, they aimed to support people who migrated to their villages to raise cattle, Çelik explained his project as follows:
“We will give at least 50 small cattle, a ram and a goat to the people who have migrated to their villages. We anticipate distributing 50,000 sheep animals in total each year. The state will bear 75 percent of the cost, and the people who will make the production will cover 25 percent. We plan to distribute a total of 260 thousand animals to new producers in 5 years. The budget of the project is 800 million TL. Young people and women will be positively discriminated against. The project will expand to 11 provinces and then to 81 provinces. If necessary, players can be imported for the project. If this happens, production will increase and meat prices will decrease.”
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Meat prices will continue to rise
TÜDKİYEB President Nihat Çelik said the earthquake hit livestock deeply, more than 60,000 animals perished in the region, and 650 of the 4,300 animal breeders left the region. Stating that while people are in trouble, the rental lobby is trying to take animals away from earthquake victims at the cost of nothing, Çelik said: “All these negativities are upsetting the balance of the market. It is almost the month of Ramadan. The prices were already increasing, now they will increase even more in Ramadan,” he said.