Minister Pakdemirli Announced: Support Payments to Farmers Begin at 18:00 Today! Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli delivered good news to farmers. He announced that support payments totaling 1,626,000,000 TRY prepared for farmers will begin to be transferred to accounts today starting at 18:00. Minister Pakdemirli also noted that the total of all support payments made to farmers since January 1, 2020, has reached 12.4 billion TRY. After sharing the good news with farmers, Minister Bekir Pakdemirli made the following statements.
Support Payments Start Today
Support payments will begin today. In a written statement, Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said payments to farmer citizens will start today from 18:00. In his statement he provided details on the payments. Within the scope of the first period Calf Support for 2019, support payments totaling 1,434,000,000 TRY for 701,111 producers across all 81 provinces will begin today at 18:00.
In addition, under the Herd Expansion and Renewal Support, payments totaling 187,000,000 TRY for 71,845 producers across 80 provinces will start being transferred to accounts this evening after 18:00. He also stated that within the Certified Seed Production Support, payments of 5,000,000 TRY for 11 companies in 7 provinces will begin to be transferred to accounts at 18:00 this evening. He noted that the specified support payments will be made this evening at 18:00 according to the last digit of farmers’ Turkish ID numbers. Payments under the 2019 first period Calf Support and the Herd Expansion and Renewal support will start today with those whose Turkish ID number ends in 0.
- Those whose ID number ends with 0: from April 24, 2020, after 18:00,
- Those whose ID number ends with 2: from April 30, 2020, after 18:00,
- Those whose ID number ends with 4: from May 8, 2020, after 18:00,
- Those whose ID number ends with 6 and 8: from May 15, 2020, after 18:00.