“We will continue to support those who produce, export, invest and generate jobs”
Speaking at the Ziraat Bank Agricultural Ecosystem Gathering, President Erdoğan said: “This year, we have allocated a budget of TL1.3 billion for our projects. In other words, we, as the state, are and will continue to support those who work, produce, export, invest and generate jobs with all our means.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the Ziraat Bank 4th Agricultural Ecosystem Gathering at Haliç Congress Center in Istanbul.
“Last year, we provided grants totaling TL755 million to 71 thousand people in 15 provinces. This year, we have allocated a budget of TL1.3 billion for our projects. In other words, we, as the state, are and will continue to support those who work, produce, export, invest and generate jobs with all our means,” President Erdoğan said.
Noting that since the day they first came into office, they provided farmers with TL2.1 trillion in agricultural support, President Erdoğan said: “Our country produces 206 types of agricultural crops and fortunately we are self-sufficient in most of them. We rank fourth in the world in terms vegetable and fruit production. We are eleventh in crop production. In 21 products, we rank among the top three in the world. We rank first in Europe in beef, chicken meat and egg production. In aquaculture, we are sixteenth in the world and second in Europe.”
“IN 22 YEARS, WE TRIPLED OUR AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT”
“In 22 years, we tripled our agricultural output, which was $24.5 billion in 2002, to $74 billion in 2024. Over the same period, we took our agricultural exports from $3.8 billion to $32.6 billion last year,” President Erdoğan said.
“In the last 22 years, we have achieved a foreign trade surplus of $110 billion in agriculture. We export 2,218 types of agricultural products to 186 countries. We export seeds to 104 countries. In today's figures, we have invested a total of TL3 trillion 350 billion in water, which is our source of life. We opened 10,663 facilities. We have built 3 times more dams than the dams built in the history of the Republic. This year, we will open 321 more facilities with an investment value of TL132 billion,” President Erdoğan said.
