Turkey: Melon producers in Malatya are in danger; prices remain below high costs

Published 2024년 9월 18일

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CHP Malatya Deputy Veli Ağbaba expressed concern about the collapse of agriculture in Malatya, particularly melon production, due to increasing costs and falling prices. The article details the significant rise in expenses such as fuel, labor, irrigation water, fertilizer, and medicine, contrasted with a dramatic drop in melon prices from 7.5 TL to 2.5-3 TL per kilo. This unsustainable situation has led to financial strain for farmers, prompting Ağbaba to warn that the surge in costs and decline in prices threaten the viability of farming in both Malatya and Turkey, affecting not only melons but also wheat, barley, and tomatoes.

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(MALATYA) - CHP Malatya Deputy Veli Ağbaba said, "Arguvan is a region where both watery and dry melons are planted every year. Last year, melons that found buyers for 7.5 TL per kilo are not currently finding buyers for 2.5-3 TL per kilo. While fuel oil was around 18-20 TL last year, it is 44-45 TL this year, labor is 400-450 TL but this year it is at least a thousand TL, irrigation water is the same, fertilizer has increased two and a half times, medicine has increased three times but the price of melon has dropped by more than half. If this continues, no one will plant or harvest in Malatya or Turkey next year." CHP Malatya Deputy Veli Ağbaba visited Arguvan Yukarı Sülmenli Neighborhood Headman Atamer Çamur together with Arguvan Mayor Ersoy Eren and received information about melon production in the region. Çamur, who is a melon producer in Arguvan, said the following: "It should be over 8 liras to save costs" "I am a melon producer, we produce melons. The daily wage of the ...

Source: Sondakika