BÜLENT GÜLÇUBUK: TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE WILL GAIN MUCH MORE IMPORTANCE
Professor Bülent Gülçubuk, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture at Ankara University, said that traditional agriculture, local products, local seeds, geographically signed products and strategic products will come to the fore in the future rather than industrial agriculture... Long term planning required... "No fields should be left empty and the state should support it," said Dr. Bülent Gülçubuk, "Countries will make 'self-sufficiency plans in agriculture' along with the pandemic of Covit-19 from now on." Pointing out that Turkey should develop strategies in terms of a 20-year perspective in agriculture, Gülçubuk stated, "Strategies based on being self-supporting from food and agricultural point of view will come to the fore. There is no concept of unmanned agriculture. It may be in industrial agriculture, but in epidemics such as coronavirus it does not mean anything. We should have long-term plans in strategic product...