TURKISH GOVERMENT WILL BE BACKING EVERY EFFORT TO BOOST AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION...
The government will be backing every effort and taking firm steps to help boost agricultural and livestock production, according to President Erdoğan, who also said ensuring food safety has become a matter of national security Food safety has become a matter of national security for the country, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday, stressing the danger of foreign dependency in basic agricultural products, with emphasis on the strong support the country will be providing for the agricultural and livestock industries. "Ensuring the food safety of our people has become a matter of national security for Turkey as it has for every other country," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in his address at the 3rd Turkey Agriculture and Forestry Council in the capital Ankara, underscoring that developed countries already invest extraordinary effort to ensure their food safety and future. "Foreign dependency in basic agricultural products is just as dangerous as foreign de...