Critical Loss in Turkish Agriculture: The Number of Farmers and Lands is Decreasing

There has been a serious decline in agricultural production in Türkiye since 2002. Research shows that in the last twenty years, approximately 2 million 940 thousand farmers have withdrawn from production and 2 million 601 thousand hectares of agricultural land have been left empty.

The data of the last agricultural census, which was carried out using the survey method after a long time, has not yet been shared with the public. After censuses were carried out at regular intervals from 1927 to 2001, the lack of transparent transfer of existing data increases uncertainty in the agricultural sector.