To buy an iPhone 17, it is necessary to sell 30 truckloads of watermelons or 2 truckloads of tomatoes.

For weeks, the "coming soon" buzz surrounding the iPhone 17 has dominated the agenda, and when viewed from a farmer's perspective and in terms of agricultural production, interesting figures emerge. The lowest priced iPhone 17, with 256 GB, is announced at 80 thousand lira, while the iPhone Pro Max with 2 TB is sold for 220 thousand lira. Depending on its color, model, and the selling company, these prices can vary for the iPhone 17. From a farmer's viewpoint, reaching these phones won't be easy. Without covering even a single input cost such as fertilizer, fuel, labor, or pesticide, and selling their produce solely based on the exit price from the field, farmers would have to forgo quite a bit of agricultural produce to afford this luxury communication device. For instance, a tomato producer wanting to buy the new model at the lowest price of 80 thousand lira would need to sell 20 tons of paste tomatoes, which are sold at 4 lira per kilo. Considering that the price of oil-bearing ...