Turkey: The price of cowpea in Kardeşköy is sold for 10 liras, but the price is doubled in Efeler markets

Cowpea, which is harvested in the fields and sold to wholesalers for 10 liras in the rural Kardeşköy Mahallesi, which is about 10 kilometers from the center of Aydın, finds buyers for 20 liras in the markets in Efeler in the central district. This situation hurts both the producer and the consumer. Production continues uninterruptedly in Aydın, which is one of the most important centers of agricultural production in Turkey in terms of its potential and product diversity. While there is activity in the fields for 12 months of the year throughout the province, the price difference in some products goes up to 100 percent in the journey of the products between the field and the street market. In the rural Kardesköy District, the cowpea, which the workers come to the fields in the first light of the morning and start to harvest, is sold to wholesalers for 10 TL per kilo, while the price of the cowpea, which is located in the central district of Aydın, Efeler, which is about 10 ...