In keeping with Kirişci, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the dynamo of returning to the countryside will likely be girls and youth. Saying that the countryside will likely be redesigned, Kirişci stated, “If the villages can’t be was residing facilities, manufacturing can’t be made with distant management.” Minister Kirişci said that greens and fruits had been transported to Istanbul from 76 provinces with 270 thousand automobiles and that 117 thousand tons of carbon dioxide was emitted whereas touring 140 thousand kilometers. he stated.
In keeping with Vahit Kirişci, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the dynamo of returning to the countryside will likely be girls and youth. Saying that the countryside will likely be redesigned, Kirişci stated, “If the villages can’t be was residing facilities, manufacturing can’t be made with distant management.” Stating that greens and fruits had been transported to Istanbul from 76 provinces with 270 thousand automobiles, and 117 thousand tons of carbon dioxide was emitted whereas touring 140 thousand kilometers, Kirişci stated, “Do it is advisable to stroll 800 km for 1 kilogram of tomatoes? City agriculture will save each Istanbul and Erzurum,” he stated. Kirisci stated:
We are going to redesign the countryside
Within the villages, our headmen elect themselves. There isn’t a one else. I exaggerate, however the variety of such villages is just not few. If these locations can’t be was residing facilities, manufacturing can’t be made by distant management. We have to make purposes that can appeal to individuals to come back there. Transported training was one of many essential the reason why the countryside turned this fashion. Up to now, there have been no well being, training companies, roads, however immediately the villages have all the things. We have now an obligation to teach youngsters within the village. We are going to perform the primary software with MEB on November 1st. It’s going to begin from the villages near the town heart. The Ministry of Surroundings and Urbanization has a ‘Sensible Village’ software that can meet immediately’s wants. Plant and animal manufacturing will likely be accomplished subsequent to the village. At the moment, the Basic Directorate of Agrarian Reform is engaged on them. We determined to begin from Konya, Karapınar, Hotamış Village. Within the provinces we go to, we’ve a undertaking that claims ‘give us an exemplary village and we’ll implement it there’. We will even encourage manufacturing by fortifying the countryside and making it a middle of attraction.
– In one in all your speeches, you stated that ‘the return to the countryside has began, we have to enhance it extra’. Do you’ve got knowledge on the response price?
One of many essential elements that can guarantee a return to the countryside is the extent of welfare. Because the indispensability and strategicity of agriculture is shared, there will likely be a return to the countryside. Within the west, individuals work within the metropolis throughout the day and spend the evening within the countryside. We would like him to spend his day and evening within the countryside. This isn’t an indication of poverty. ‘Our enterprise is small, it doesn’t carry us any revenue’… It has nothing to do with it. It is dependent upon what you produce there, how a lot time you spend. Not if you happen to do not use your individual household energy in manufacturing and need to switch sources to different workforces. Agriculture is just not such an exercise. In Illinois, USA, you see relations working within the livestock enterprise. Grandfather, grandmother, mom, father, grandchild takes care of 400-500 animals. Our crucial energy; girls and youth.
– I suppose you suppose the girl ought to be tied to the bottom first?
Positively. The daddy dies, the household doesn’t break up, however when the girl dies, the household falls aside. It is the girl we’ve to concentrate on. If there are modern initiatives that will appeal to the eye of younger individuals, we’ll say, ‘In case you have a undertaking, let’s implement it’, identical to within the TEKNOFEST era, and we’ll pave the way in which for younger individuals. Hopefully, we’ve one other dream: to type a Girls and Youth Council that guides the agriculture sector. I am saying this for the primary time. If we’re going to type a Council of individuals with knowledge, individuals with imaginative and prescient, it’s the best energy for us that it consists of ladies and youth. As of the tip of 2021, our common age is 33.1. That’s, 50 % of the inhabitants is below 33.1. There are 18 million youth who go to high school and eight million who go to college. 26 million. Take away the USA, Germany, France, is there a rustic with a inhabitants of 26 million in Europe? You might have such human sources materials in your arms. We’d like to have the ability to use this wealth in agricultural manufacturing as properly. The software program and informatics sector advantages from this, why not agriculture?
– What’s your plan in city agriculture?
I studied in England and did my PhD there. Within the Nineties, I studied precision-applied agriculture. You begin with autonomous automobiles after which drones and many others. We have now advanced from a time after we had problem in saying GPS to a time that everybody can say. I’m not somebody who says, ‘There was a pandemic, agriculture was vital’. I’ve been saying from the start that agriculture is strategic, indispensable for the world. 838 million individuals die of starvation. About 3.1 billion individuals even have difficulties in accessing meals.
Manufacturing areas on every ground
I advised my mates to think about manufacturing areas on each ground like an condo constructing. Is not this a factor? We should do these. We’re speaking concerning the self-sufficiency of nations, proper? Properly, if a metropolis or a number of cities within the nation bear all the burden of manufacturing, is that this an accurate factor? That is the rationale why Istanbul has grow to be uninhabitable proper now, that is the state of affairs Kocaeli and Bursa have fallen into. The hassle to unfold the trade to Anatolia is the manifestation of this. The identical ought to be seen because the justification for city agriculture. Cities that produce each for home consumption and for export are coastal cities. It begins from Adana, let’s embody Hatay partially, Mersin, Muğla, İzmir.
‘We are going to produce in applicable locations’
What we emphasize in city agriculture is issues with a brief shelf life, fruit and veggies. Right here we focus. Wheat, barley, paddy and many others. not. They’re already our strategic merchandise and we’ll produce them the place applicable. City agriculture merchandise have a brief shelf life, a brief logistics distance, and due to this fact a low price, carbon footprint, exhaust emission and value product. 800 km for a kilo of tomatoes. do you need to stroll? For those who say we have to acquire it by ourselves, the reply is clear.
Fruit and veggies are transported from 76 provinces in Istanbul with 270 thousand automobiles.
These merchandise are transported from 76 provinces to Istanbul, which Istanbul calls for 25 % of Turkey’s contemporary fruit and vegetable wants, with 270 thousand automobiles. 140 million km. These automobiles journey a distance, 140 million… For those who look throughout Turkey, it is 1800 km. 1800 km. in a rustic with a diagonal, 140 million km. you’re touring. Consequently, you emit 117 thousand tons of carbon dioxide. Not environmentally pleasant, excessive price. Whereas offering employment within the hometown… 2 occasions the inhabitants of Erzurum lives exterior the town. Why did they depart, as a result of a greater life was not potential. We have to consider city agriculture on this perspective. Self-sufficiency of the province, carbon footprint, product freshness, employment, price discount. If we had been to export these merchandise, they are saying within the Inexperienced Deal, ‘How a lot carbon did you produce whereas producing’. It applies its carbon footprint like a customs tax. We have to be prepared for this.
You do not have to hit the wall
The Netherlands is switching from cattle to sheep due to its excessive carbon footprint. Examples are in entrance of us, we do not have to hit the wall. I have been saying because the day I got here; City agriculture, which can save Istanbul and Erzurum, too…
What are we attempting so as to add to this? It will be nice if the manufacturing takes place within the industrial greenhouse. In different phrases, if we will do it in provinces with a chilly local weather however capable of meet the power prices in heating, in provinces with geothermal, WPP, and SPP… Çanakkale, Balıkesir, there are filled with wind generators. For those who can generate electrical energy from there and use it for greenhouse heating, you already cowl a major a part of your price.
– Nonetheless, the place recognized with greenhouse cultivation is the nice and cozy Mediterranean Area…
You got a glass, there may be tea with it every year, there may be tea daily. Afyon Bolvadin, Sandıklı, Kırşehir, Kozaklı, the periphery of Ankara, Diyadin, Dikili, Efeler… Geothermal, RES, SPP… Additionally, just lately, electrical energy is produced from biomass, that’s, agricultural wastes and tree wastes.
Balikesir area has nice potential
Balikesir is such a area. Proper now, we’ve the best potential right here. There’s a comparable state of affairs in Sakarya, however plainly an space of 8 thousand decares in Balıkesir will likely be heated with geothermal and WPP, with biomass and will likely be used for 11.5 months after heating. 10 thousand individuals will likely be employed there. Right here, you’ll make use of 10 thousand individuals and develop 250 thousand tons of greens on solely 8 thousand decares. You’ll develop 40 % of your annual tomato manufacturing there. Turkey has a complete of 5200 decares of geothermal greenhouse belongings. An space of 30 thousand decares on this planet. We’re a rustic that may simply have greater than 50 % of it.
The land is just not completed in Turkey
In keeping with FAO knowledge, 41 international locations lease land. There are those that lease because the state and those that lease because the personal sector. It’s out of the query for us to lease as a public sector, however we have to shift the product that consumes quite a lot of water, for instance, to different geographies by profiting from the dynamism of our personal sector. We went to Venezuela, we had been advised that it rains typically in half an hour intervals. God gave water. With the productions you’ll make there, you possibly can meet such wants of your nation.
I do not perceive the opposition’s response. You get our contractors to function airports, highways, railways, and buying malls, however in terms of agriculture, why do you say, ‘Is the land in Turkey completed or is agriculture over, and also you go there’? The land is just not completed in Turkey, in fact, manufacturing continues, however we have to underline the idea of ‘availability’, which we name safety of provide. Relating to safety of provide, individuals might have a tough time understanding it. For those who want a product, you could have the product irrespective of the circumstances. Will you discover this product by producing it inside or importing it from overseas? In that import, too, the way in which is to purchase what our individuals produce.
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