"THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE IS UNDER THREAT"
Touching on the importance of family businesses, Bekir Pakdemirli, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry said, "Of course we will protect family businesses. Family businesses are important to reduce migration from the village to the city, "he said.
Minister Pakdemirli participated in the 14th Agroexpo International Agriculture and Livestock Fair in Izmir, "Agriculture Future" theme, organized by the "Agricultural Ministers Summit". Pakdemirli emphasized that agriculture is more important than defense and stated that the world population will reach 10 billion by 2050 and urbanization will increase to 75% and the food produced should be increased by 50%.
Pointing out that 1 million people in the world are overly poor and 80 million are obese, Pakdemirli stated that 1 kilogram of 3 kilograms of food was casted away and 1.4 billion tons of food was wasted.
Pakdemirli, emphasized that; Food in 39 countries around the world, 80 in water shortage "There is no guarantee that there will be no water and food wars tomorrow. Global warming will cause a decrease of 20-40 per cent." found in the evaluation.
"WE WILL PROTECT FAMILY BUSINESSES"
In order to meet the food demand in 2050, Pakdemirli pointed out that the irrigation water should be increased by 65 percent and the agricultural lands by 70 percent.
"The future of agriculture is under threat because of global warming and wrong fertilization. We can make hard homework in this field together and we can do it together. There are 2-3 elements in doing this homework. Of course we will protect the family business. In order to meet this demand, industrialization and mechanization are essential, we call it Industry 4.0, we have to implement agricultural 4.0 applications Robot systems, artificial intelligence, wireless communication systems are what we need to use in agriculture. We've started the project and we're making earrings as normal earrings and will feature a cell phone. We'll subsidize it as a state in some way.
LOWER CARBON SAVING OF ELECTRIC TRACTOR
He stated that there are no electric tractors in the world and studies on a prototype have been continued on this subject.
Pakdemirli, said that the meteorology in the field of forecasting 1 dollar investment for the air in agriculture yielded 15 dollars, and reminded of planning currently 28 percent of the forest rate in 2023 to 30 percent
İndicating that Minister Pakdemirli in combat erosion, the world's leaders in Turkey, 2 million hectares of land in Turkey stressed the need to open up more watering.