Black Sea i am in the highlands. Every now and then, I have to go to town and do some shopping. Tuesday, Çaykara’s market and both vaccine as well as Bazaar I’m there for. I’m looking for a pearnative endemic pear. not anywhere. Yet along the way The pear trees are so full that their branches droop to the ground.fruits fall to the ground, the car runs over.
I asked; “where are these native pears?” that… A customer at the market immediately replied; “ain the trees…” So why isn’t it in the market?? Response of the seller is enough to explain the inflation decay; “no one collects” Doesn’t it make money? “It doesn’t matter, I buy it for 15 liras and sell it for 20.”
OKAY BUT WHY?
I have seen, pear on the tree with this mindset we rot in the market. Agricultural lands are valued to real estate when it turns; farmer’s production also devalued. No longer producing, new through the gate of profit we move. For pear tree, agriculture to imported products we left.
because we not on production but on market consumption we think. because we not by owning a home, but by having the contractor we think. because we not by producing the blessing, but by deferring the burden. we think. because we chose to be consumersWe gave up production.
FROM AGRICULTURAL LAND REAL ESTATE TO THE LAND
For 17 years, I have spent at least 1 month in the summer in the highlands. Thanks to the internet While working here, the mountain wanders, change in nature, socio-cultural differentiation my observations. Here’s what I’ve seen over the last 10 years: fruits are rotting on the branch. The meadows are not cut, products are not collected.
Number of animals decreased number of concrete multiplied. Concrete doesn’t give us milk either.. For this cow necessary, sheep, goat need… now cow is not milked. You ask why? Agricultural lands became real estate for. Inflation has also changed them. to uncultivated lands I’m looking, if you go and aspire to you real estate land price they are pulling.
TWO QUESTIONS TWO ANSWERS
Is milk taken to the plateau?
if if you don’t produce, is taken. so did i To Buzpinar Plateau I brought a bottle of milk from Çaykara. This is my friend Omer Lutfi Meteof “Firefighters On Fire” as in the book strange but true… extinguishing the fire if the fire brigade itself is on firemeans there is a deeper problem. A cow grazing with a highland flower produces milk. endemic rich pastures standing there transporting milk from the county so is it…
What happens if we give up production?
This is what will happen; in need of the day you become You use input prices as an excuse. You’re right too… But cultivating the fieldself-ending picking the pear and taking it to the market when needed You can’t justify inflation… rosewood on my tongue; “there is no meal that comes from hand, it is also not found on time”
NOTE
GERIATRIC AGRICULTURE
in agriculture geriatrics is happening. Young people do not want to deal with the agricultural sector. He leaves the villages. farmland on the initiative of the elderly, is left to his efforts. there too what can be done it is being activated.
Agriculture as if it were something to be ashamed of; ‘Sir, it is enough for us to be a producer in informatics and technology to be rich.‘ as to strange fantasies we’re getting stuck. We have become beggars of our own treasure in agriculture. We used to be a self-sufficient country, now we are foreign-dependent for food. PARADISE homeland; if you don’t produce The homeland of insanity it happens.