At the market, each one costs 80 lira; they wanted to buy them from the farmer for 5 lira each.

In Bursa, traders wanted to buy purple cabbage (karalahan) from farmers for 5 lira each, while it was being sold in the markets for 80 lira each. In the neighborhood markets of Nilüfer district of Bursa, purple cabbage is being sold for 70-80 lira each, depending on its size. The high price of this product is not due to the flooding in regions like Antalya, as it is not grown in greenhouses. Despite being sold for 80 lira each, a producer in Bor district of Niğde did not harvest and left the product in the field because traders wanted to buy it from him for 5 lira each. If the trader buys it for 5 lira, it makes a 16-fold difference in the sale. That is, a product that is bought cheaply in the field reaches the table at 16 times its price. On one side, many people cannot afford to buy purple cabbage, which is sold for 80 lira each, while on the other side, the sweat, labor, and economic loss are left to rot in the field because the cost is not saved. Hasan Aydın, the producer of ...