Farmers in Konya have revolted! It is beneficial to listen to the message they are giving.

In the Yunak district of Konya, farmers organized a protest with their tractors in response to rising input costs. Farmers, who demanded a solution to their problems, used the expression "The farmer has awakened, not the old farmer. We are in the field from now on."

FARMERS' TRACTOR PROTEST IN KONYA

Farmers in the Yunak district of Konya organized a protest with tractors. Many farmers from the district and surrounding villages participated in the protest. Farmers, expressing their helplessness in the face of water problems and input costs, demanded a solution to their problems.

"THE FARMER HAS AWAKENED"

CHP Konya Deputy Barış Bektaş also supported the protest. Farmers expressed their reaction with the words "The farmer has awakened, not the old farmer. We are in the field from now on." Bektaş, in his speech here, said the following: "Let's look at the practices that deeply sadden all of us and bring agriculture and animal husbandry to the point of extinction. Look, our farmer from Hadim who cut down cherry trees, our livestock farmer who sent his cows from Ovakavak to slaughter because milk didn't pay off. Our farmers in Seydişehir, who have 40,000 tons of watermelons left in the field without being harvested, we hear all their cries. Now we have come to Yunak."

"THERE CANNOT BE SUCH A RANDOM STATE MINDSET"

Look, we are living in a country where it is not known who will plant what, when, how much, and to whom it will be sold. There cannot be such a random and ordinary state mindset. You will close the State Planning Organization, you will close the State Audit Board, you will not implement the rotation. The farmer will not let his land rest, production costs will reach record levels because you privatized state feed and fertilizer factories, and the farmer will become unable to produce.

"WHY SHOULD THE FARMER'S FIELD REMAIN EMPTY?"

Last week, the CHP filed a lawsuit and a regulation came into effect. Most of you may not know about this. It says two years, if the farmer does not plant his field, we as the state will lease it. So, my brother, why doesn't this farmer plant for two years? If it is profitable, why shouldn't he plant? Why should his field remain empty? Wheat and barley-like plants are planted in winter months that require water. Water is our biggest problem, and they do not find a solution to it. Just now, one of our citizens mentioned the Blue Tunnel project, a big deception, a project that does not even meet one-tenth of Konya's agricultural water needs.

"TRACTORS WERE LEFT HALFWAY DURING A PROTEST"

People are still continuing to irrigate with wells, and while irrigating with wells, they say some have licensed water, some have illegal wells. Taking advantage of this opportunity, they sell you expensive electricity. Does a government in a difficult situation sell electricity at a high price? Just now, a man said, 'I couldn't come here with my tractor because I don't have diesel.' They put the farmer in this situation. During a protest, tractors were left halfway. Why? They couldn't reach the point of the protest because there was no diesel. Now you see these costs. The farmer's product is not valuable. You see that. You don't open a market for them, you don't create a demand. And then you say, 'I will take the field from someone who doesn't plant for 2 years.' Whose field are you taking from whom?"