Wheat crisis in the door!
]19 October 2011 Ntvmsnbc
The World Food Organization FAO set the motto of the World Food Day in 2011 as “Food Prices: Intelligence from the Crisis”. TEMA Foundation members show that the presence of "losed, polluted, exploited soil and water, which is impossible to provide this stability recently. [
[ [BinYear Development Goals are the aim of dropping the hungry population rate in the world in 2015. They say and continue... But even if this goal is approached, 600 million people will continue to draw hunger. Despite all these efforts, the number of people living under the hunger limit in the world has changed since 1970. Approximately 1 billion people live under the hunger limit.
Turkey attracts great trouble in food safety. It wasn’t now in a country that has been self-contained Tags. Our soils with human-source activities such as erosion, forest-freeization, excessive artificial fertilizer use, improper irrigation, lose yield strength.
According to [TEMA; the decisive basic condition of life is sufficient and reliable access to food. The only condition to ensure food safety is to protect “Earth and Water” assets. According to a research conducted in recent years by DPT, 55% of our society’s protein consumption and 52% of calories consumption are met grain products. Our annual wheat production is about 20 million tons, and 15 million tons of this production are consumed as human food. In short, our society is greatly feeding with bread.
The increase of the rifle continues in this direction and if the yield increase in wheat production can not be achieved, Turkey will have to increase wheat import in 2020. Many countries may not be able to buy wheat even if it is due to importing the need of wheat. According to the fact that Turkey does not stay in agriculture, the only solution is to increase our wheat production by approaching a protective understanding of soil and water presence. [
TEMA: Population growth continues in this direction and if the yield increase in wheat production can not be achieved, Turkey can have to increase wheat import in 2020...
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