On August 25, 2022, Turkey's Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Vahit Kirişci, announced that 468 million liras, part of the beet irrigation advance payments, would be distributed to 28,427 beet farmers as part of the contract agriculture scheme. This announcement marks a total support of 1 billion 617 million TL in cash and 1 billion 69 million TL in kind to these farmers, bringing the total support provided to farmers to 2 billion 686 million TL since the start of the year.