Wheat will be taken from 10 lira per kilo

Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyer He gave the good news that the kilo of karakılçık wheat from the contracted farmers will be bought from 10 liras. Stating that the economic crisis has bent the back of the producers, President Soyer said, “The Grain Board has not announced the price of wheat yet. As Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, I would like to give you the good news that we will buy the contracted karakılçık wheat from 10 liras per kilo. We will provide all the necessary support for our producer to produce.”

Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerIn line with the vision of "Another Agriculture is Possible", small producers continue to be supported with the purchase guarantee model. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which continues to purchase at a price more than twice the market price, announced that it will buy the wheat from the producer, to which it distributed the bark wheat seeds last year, for 10 liras. Minister Tunç Soyer“Last year, while the Turkish Grain Board announced that it would buy wheat for 3.5 liras, we announced that we would purchase 7 liras from the producer to whom we distribute black pepper seeds. The Turkish Grain Board has not announced the price of wheat yet, but we want to give good news to our farmers that we have increased the weight of the contracted karakılçık wheat from 7 lira to 10 lira, considering the inflation pressure. We will provide all the necessary support for our producer to produce.”

It will be sold under the İzmirli brand.

Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerThe project of disseminating the ancestral seed karakılçık wheat, initiated by . Within the scope of the project, which was started to encourage the use of local seeds instead of imported seeds and to provide support to wheat producers, a 4 thousand decare area will be harvested this year in İzmir, Manisa Salihli and Burdur. It is aimed to buy approximately 800 tons of barley wheat at full yield and to support the producer with 8 million liras. A significant part of the wheat will be separated as seeds for the next year, and the remaining part of the metropolitan subsidiary IzTirim will be made into flour, bread and pasta, and delivered to consumers under the Izmirli brand.