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Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli said that they closely followed 50 products especially during the coronavirus period. Pakdemirli stated, "We are following all of these products' production, harvest, exports, imports and taxes, etc. But too much onion used to be exported, its prices turned to normal while we restricted the export of it. We did the same with lemon. If we open the export of lemon today, the price will increase to 30 TL. We will not allow it to be exported at least until September." Expressing that they were just about to enter the harvest period at the time of emerging pandemic, Pakdemirli said, "Turkey is a country which can be self-sufficient in agriculture. Do not worry. Not only we've done studies for the harvest time, we have planned for the plantings of next year." Normalisation process... "In addition, we did not want to accumulate and queue in the markets, as in other countries. Before we started th...

Inert agricultural lands belonging to the Turkish Treasury are opened to the utilisation of farmers... Production will start on an area of ​​14 million square metres. Kayseri has the biggest share of these lands with approximately 4 million square meters. Important steps are being taken in the fight against coronavirus for food supply and safety. Inert agricultural lands belonging to the Treasury are opened to the usage of farmers. In this context, approximately 14 million square metres of land will be opened to agriculture throughout the country. Kayseri province had the biggest share of the treasury land. There are 3 million 850 thousand square metres of idle agricultural land in the province. Farmers can apply to directorates... Kayseri Metropolitan Mayor Memduh Büyükkılıç said, "We are grateful once again, especially to our President, to those who contributed to the production with a healthy assessment of this land, which we believe will be an important investment...