CHP Deputy Ömer Fethi Gürer: "Potato producer is selling under the cost, TMO should be activated"

CHP Niğde Deputy and Parliamentary Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Affairs Commissioner Omer Fethi Gurer, Nevsehir met with potato producers listened to their problems.

Cost pressure pushes the manufacturer
Manufacturers, the cost of potatoes, although the cost of 8 pounds of sales price remained below it, he said.

Gürer: "TMO should start buying"
Gürer stated that the production of potatoes in Turkey has not changed since 1999 and said, “In 1999, 6.5 million tons were produced, today there is still the same amount of production. The population increased by 30 million. The purchase system walking through the trader is putting the producer in trouble every year. TMO and agricultural credit are not solved.

Great price difference between the manufacturer and consumer
Gürer, the potatoes taken under the cost of the market is sold on the shelves of the market 15-20 pounds, stressing, "Farmer is damaging, consumer is expensive. Potatoes have 30 different usage areas, but most of them go to the trash. This national reserve.

Export and Chain Market Problems
Producer Soner Barut drew attention to the share of export barriers and chain markets in the market.

"If production ends, the country will be damaged"
Producers stressed that state support is a must for the continuity of production: “Although the cost is 8 pounds, we sell it under it. Some of the potatoes give fire in the field. There is at least 30-40 percent loss. This is an unsustainable situation.”

Gürer stated that the policies of the government leaving the market only to the merchant led the producer to a dead end.

Kaynak: CUMHA - CUMHUR HABER AJANSI