Hisarcıklıoğlu relayed the plight of the nut and peach growers suffering due to frost
12.05.2014 / Ankara
Agricultural producers suffering from the frost have called for aid. Ordu and Giresun Chamber of Commerce and Industry have requested aid for the region’s nut producers who have been dealt a severe blow due to damage to their produce from snow and frost, relaying a report on the matter to TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu. Also, Malatya Commodity Exchange has applied to TOBB in order to bring resolution to the plight of the peach producers suffering due to frost.
Hisarcıklıoğlu has relayed the requests to the Minister of the Treasury, Mehmet Şimşek, during the TOBB High Coordination Council and Strategy Development High Council Joint Meeting on the 3rd of May, 2014.
TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu has relayed the findings of the report from the Ordu and Giresun Chamber of Commerce and Industry indicating that over a million people are being severely effected by the disaster.
The report includes a list of precautionary requests including delaying debts for the effected farmers. In regards to the disaster; top and middle of the produce has suffered 100% losses while the lower parts have suffered between 40% and 70%, resulting in an increase in nut prices from 6 TL to 10 TL on the open market.
Additionally it is put forth that the disaster will have a domino effect, resulting in an impact on the tradesmen and craftsmen of the region in addition to the producers.
The report calls for support for farmers in the Black Sea region, to incentivize various nut types, postponement of credit debt, instatement of low interest credit or grant programs from institutions such as KOSGEB and the Agricultural and Rural Development Consolidation Institution, continuation of the Regional Income Support in Ordu, Giresun and Trabzon, support for licensed nut storage as well as spreading the support of the Treasury and TOBB to the whole region to this end.
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