ULUSOY: WE NEED LICENSED WAREHOUSES OF 12 MILLION TONS CAPACITY
Eren Günhan Ulusoy, Chairman of Turkish Flour Industrialists Association, said that Turkey needs 12 million tons of licensed warehouse for grain... In Turkey, underlining that young people don't want to be involved in agriculture, Ulusoy said, "The average age of citizens engaged in agriculture around 50, more than 20 years on average. So they have limited access to information and not open to innovation." "Divided lands by inheritance falls down yields and the reduction of income leads people not to invest in technology, thus farmers lean to traditional methods" Ulusoy noted. Stating that farmers being helpless against merchants and industrialists because of their warehouse and financial difficulties, Ulusoy unveiled, "There is a simple model for this in the grain market. Farmers can put their products in a licensed warehouse, get an electronic product certificate in return of this and then apply to a bank for credits while gaining power of long t...