The farmer was left without an owner, he fell victim to the choice
The election is over, millions of unclaimed farmers face the impact of low base prices and rising dollars. Before the election, the farmer’s wheat, who expected the base price of wheat to be at least TL 12, received only TL 9.25 after the election.
The price of barley was 7.5 TL. Also, immediately after this disappointing price, the dollar rose rapidly, the liter of diesel increased from 19.75 TL to 22.5 TL with a 14 percent increase in 3 days. More dollar increases will also increase the prices of fertilizers, pesticides and seeds, and the farmer will be in a very difficult situation.
BIG DISAPPOINTMENT
Türk-İş seized the electoral opportunity, and when drafting the collective agreements that will be signed next August before the elections, he received the raise, which made the public worker happy. When the largest farmers’ organization, the Turkish Union of Agricultural Chambers (TZOB), did not take Türk-İş as an example, the announcement of wheat prices was delayed after the elections. The prices announced after the elections caused great disappointment to millions of farmers.
The government announced the good news of a 64 percent increase in the purchase price of fresh tea before the election, at the insistence of tea farmers. Also, the purchase prices for wheat and barley were expected to be announced before the elections. However, the good news before the elections did not come when there was no persistent demand from the peasant organization itself. After the elections, the government was content to increase the price of wheat by 24 percent and that of barley by 20 percent, including the premium.
Hüseyin Demirtaş, president of the Turkish Farmers Association, said that although production costs increased in the same way, the increase of tea by 64 percent and wheat and barley by 20-24 percent was due to the opportunity failure. choose. Demirtaş warned: “Farmers cannot produce at these prices, migration to the city will accelerate.”
ELECTION GAP: HAPPY WORKER, WONDERFUL FARMERS
Collective bargaining for approximately 700,000 public sector workers would normally be negotiated and decided next August. However, after the elections, the Türk-İş administration, seeing that the worker could not get the raise he wanted, convinced the government and made negotiations take place before the elections. Thanks to this, Türk-İş managed to get a 98 percent increase in public worker salary for the first 6 months of this year. Since the TZOB, the main organization of approximately 2 million farmers, did not announce wheat prices before the elections, the increase remained in the range of 20 to 24 percent.