Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Vahit Kirişci, along with Deputy Ministers Nihat Pakdil and İbrahim Yumaklı, and other officials, visited Kars to participate in various programs. Kirişci met with the Governor and Deputy Mayor, and held a closed-door meeting with the provincial protocol. He also announced the sugar beet purchase price as 1400 TL per ton and an additional 50 TL quota completion premium per ton for producers who have completed their beet production quota, increasing the purchase price of sugar beet by 245 percent. Later, Kirişci opened Turkey's first cheese museum in Kars and announced a support payment of 1 billion 127 million TL for one thousand tons of raw milk, bringing the total support paid to milk producers in 2022 to 2 billion 880 million TL.