Sacrifice for minimum wage
Meat The excessive increase in prices also upset the sacrifice plans of millions of citizens whose poverty deepened. The head of the Central Union of Turkish Sheep and Goat Breeders (TÜDKİYEB), Nihat Çelik, stated that a significant part of the public will not be able to approach the slaughter of cattle on this holiday, and that the price of sheep and goats may rise. to 8,500 TL, which is the level of the minimum wage.
Stating that around 2.5 million sheep and goats were bought last year during the holiday, Çelik said that there will be demand for sheep and goats again on this holiday due to high livestock prices. Çelik announced that this year, the prices of slaughter animals will vary between 5,500 TL and 8,500 TL.
IT’S NOT EVEN A QUARTER BIRTHDAY
If the price of sheep and goats is at these levels, a minimum wage family needs to invest their wages to slaughter an animal. On this holiday there was no opportunity for retirees to sacrifice a sacrifice with a salary of 7,500 lire. With the gap between wages and sacrifice prices widening, more than 20 million minimum wage families and retirees will have to spend this holiday in vain.
In 2018, when the holiday bonus was first introduced, retirees could buy a small qurban ruminant with this money, which was 1,000 lira. On these holidays, a bonus of 2 thousand lire is not enough to cover even a quarter of an animal.
‘Let the rents be raised in the sales premises’
TÜDKİYEB President Nihat Çelik said that breeders who want to sell their qurbans have to pay high rents at qurban sales places determined by municipalities, placing a heavy burden on breeders. Pointing out that some municipalities allocate qurban outlets for free as required by the social municipality approach, Çelik called on all municipalities to eliminate rents at qurban outlets. Çelik also drew attention to the fact that the victims must be taken from sight.
8,500TL
It has been calculated that the price of sheep and goats in the whole country will start from 5 thousand 500 TL this year. It was stated that the sacrifice price could rise to 8 thousand 500 TL.
8,506 Turkish lira
Net salary paid to minimum wage workers in Türkiye. Millions across the country
The person is struggling to make a living on his salary of 8,506 TL.
Source: Sozcu
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