Growing Rain in Agricultural Credit

With high inflation, food prices have risen an average of 61 percent in the past year, while Farm Credit Union stores, designed as cheap markets and discount orders, compete with chain markets. in price increases. From beef to sunflower oil, from toilet paper to minced meat, the price increase in Crédito Agrícola stores reached 114 percent in one year. Cubed beef was one of the products with the highest price increase in a year in the cooperative, with an increase of 114 percent, while cubed beef, which last year sold for 400 grams at 51 liras and 50 cents, became the champion of the walk by being sold for 108 lira and 90 kurus this year. After cubed beef, the product with the greatest increase was red beans, with an increase of 106 percent. Red beans, which last year sold for 33 liras and 90 cents, are being sold this year at the cooperative for 69 liras and 90 cents.

ERDOĞAN FINDS ‘ADEQUATE’

Last year, President Tayyip Erdoğan announced that there would be a big discount with the order he placed in August 2022 from the stores of the Agricultural Credit Union, where he bought snacks in October 2021 and paid 1002 lira and found that the prices were “quite reasonable”. However, citizens who went to the stores on August 15 of that year could not find the discount they expected.

A SÖZCÜ reporter, who saw the labels at the Eskişehir Şirintepe store of the Agricultural Credit Cooperative, found that the products had increased over the past year. Citizens reacted to the price increases and said: “We crawl, we crawl. What a shame for this nation!” Rebelled with his words.

Prices have gone up in the market.

The citizens who bought in the stores of the Cooperativa de Crédito Agropecuario also reacted to the constant price increases. Retiree Ekrem Bayraktar, who said he had difficulty shopping, said: “The prices in the Farm Credit Union stores have skyrocketed, they are all high. The grandchildren want eggs. Eggs cost 3 lira and 4 lira each. Is there something like that?” said. Sevgül Çiğdem, who works in the factory as a laborer, also said, “I can’t meet the needs of my children.”