The Turkish authorities hold talks with 10 countries, including Ukraine, on land lease for agricultural production. The plan is mainly to grow crops abroad whose production is impossible or complicated in Turkey for climatic and other reasons, the Türkiye newspaper reported on Wednesday.
"Turkey satisfies domestic demand for agricultural products, but if we are still talking about exports, it is necessary to lease land abroad. Modern products should be exported," the newspaper quoted Turkish Agriculture and Forestry Minister Vahit Kirisci as saying.
According to the Hürriyet newspaper, along with Ukraine, negotiations on leasing land are held with countries in Latin America and Africa. Abroad, in particular, it is planned to grow sunflowers, corn, cotton, sugarcane, clover, rapeseed, pineapples, mangoes and avocados. A large part of them will be for export. The private sector will implement the projects.
The newspaper notes that the issue of leasing agricultural land was discussed during a recent visit to Turkey by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The ministry of agriculture of the Latin American country offered Turkey to lease 400,000 hectares of farmland. " You can produce 100 kilos of wheat, 70 of which you can keep, 30 kilos for us, it is enough", Hürriyet quotes the head of the Venezuelan Ministry of Agriculture, Wilmar Castro Soteldo.
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Based on materials from TASS