RUSSİAN and Ukrainian officials have signed a deal to allow grain exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports, as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the agreement would help ease a global food crisis. Following this agreement, Atatürk World Platform (AWP) has published a statement on this subject.
The statement as follows: “As a result of the global food crisis, a ‘Grain Corridor Agreement’ was signed between Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations (UN), which is of great historical importance for our world.
“Grain production, which is a great need in nutrition for the Turkish population as well as in the whole world, is of great importance in economic and social life. But unfortunately, since the founding years of the republic, Atatürk’s Agricultural Policies, which he put into practice with a unique foresight, great determination and care, and the successful implementations of these policies, Atatürk’s ‘Peasant is the Master of the Nation” word was almost pushed aside. Especially since the 1980s, the agricultural and farmer support programs in Agricultural Policies started to decrease gradually…
“In addition to Turkey’s commitment to ship Ukrainian grain to the world from Ukrainian ports via the Straits; to urgently review the policies envisaged by Atatürk on agriculture; Revitalizing agricultural production, which has declined within the scope of privatization, with a new long-term program of support and incentives for the Agricultural Sector. We want and expect agriculture and the farmer, the ‘lord peasant’ to be taken care of! We hope that Turkish agriculture will have a say in world markets with the right policies.”
