Turkiye: Agricultural producers in Osmaniye complain about costs

News: Burhan Demircioğlu (OSMANİYE) - The radish and spinach harvest has begun in the Kadirli district of Osmaniye. Radish producer İlker Topalan said, "The essence of this is that this system is wrong. They came up with a free market story, a man buys watermelon for 2 liras and sells it for 10 liras. He buys radishes for 5 liras and sells them for 15 liras. He loads them onto a truck and takes them to the market. You put in a lot of effort, he buys them and sells them for three times the price." Spinach producer Refik Oğlakkaya said, "The costs are different, of course, they are one and a half times what they were last year. Sprinklers and irrigation costs have tripled or quadrupled, the weather has been dry. There is nothing cheaper than 20-25 liras anyway, to save our labor. It has to be around 20 liras." Harvests have begun in Kadirli district of Osmaniye, one of the important regions that provide radish and spinach production in Turkey. Radish and spinach producers stated ...