November 18–21, 2019
1) The formulation of agricultural and forestry policies based on the principles of strategic production and sustainability, and their implementation through a comprehensive and integrated approach,
2) Establishing a guiding support system that improves the structure of the agricultural sector, protects natural resources and the environment, covers a period of at least three years, is actively farmer-focused, and is based on production, quality, affordable prices, and sustainability,
3) Defining small, medium, and large-scale enterprises in agricultural businesses and planning activities accordingly,
4) Ensuring that agricultural production planning becomes a state policy based on the principles of sustainability, efficiency, and competitiveness, maximizing the benefit from each unit of water,
5) Accelerating land consolidation and classification projects to be completed within ten years, preparing agricultural land use plans based on the land information system,
6) Promoting alternative models such as land banking and cooperative production to bring idle agricultural land back into production, and resolving the issue of inheritance in agricultural land by developing inheritance legislation,
7) Continuing land leases to mitigate long-term risks, ensure product diversity and continuity in foreign trade, reduce product costs, and, most importantly, encourage strategic production in foreign countries from a geopolitical perspective; establishing institutional infrastructure for international agricultural and forestry activities,
8) Establishing a digital value chain from seed to table, conducting agricultural censuses, and creating an updatable database through effective cooperation with all relevant institutions and organizations,
9) Establishing a stock tracking system to prevent price speculation on agricultural products within the free market system and ensuring traceability in food warehouses,
10) Increasing the products covered by Licensed Storage of Agricultural Products, developing the system, and promoting the trade of electronic commodity certificates created by licensed storage operators based on agricultural products,
11) Supporting entrepreneurship among women and young people to ensure the sustainability of family businesses,
12) Encouraging the production of domestic medicines and vaccines for effective control of plant and animal diseases,
13) Achieving international averages in calf mortality and fertility statistics,
14) Encouraging the consumption of small ruminant meat in the red meat sector and increasing its market share,
15) Increasing efforts to preserve and improve our local breeds through public breeding and similar projects in small and large ruminant livestock farming,
16) Ensuring the provision of pasture services, promptly completing the identification and demarcation of areas suitable for pasture, allocating them to producers and producer organizations, and encouraging the development of plant seeds to be used in pasture improvement,
17) Restructuring neighborhoods in metropolitan municipalities as rural and urban, preserving the legal entity structure of villages in rural neighborhoods, coordinating rural life within the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry with a comprehensive and integrated approach,
18) Developing the fish processing sector in aquatic products, supporting marketing and brand registration, increasing exports and domestic consumption,
19) Increasing production and productivity in aquaculture and fishing with alternative aquatic species within the framework of sustainability principles,
20) Increasing agricultural productivity and integrating information technology into the agricultural sector for more efficient use of resources, spreading Smart Agriculture Applications, increasing the number of trained farmers/engineers/intermediate personnel in Smart Agriculture through special programs,
21) Continuing efforts to promote the use of certified seeds,
22) Protecting, developing, and commercializing native (local) seed varieties, which are our country’s local treasure,
23) Ensuring effective traceability throughout the entire chain from seed to table and enhancing the effectiveness of the control system to ensure food and feed safety, public health, plant health, animal health, and welfare,
24) Effective use of meteorological information, which has become increasingly important in agriculture and forestry due to climate change, at every stage of production; increasing activities aimed at monitoring and researching the effects of climate change; and developing action plans to prevent possible effects,
25) Ensuring the use, protection, and monitoring of soil and water resources within the framework of sustainable management principles,
26) Enacting the Water Law to enable more effective and efficient management of our country’s water resources and to provide the necessary legal infrastructure,
27) Completing new irrigation investments and rehabilitation projects over the next 25 years, ensuring the effective and efficient use of water in agriculture,
28) Establishing a new institutional infrastructure that includes the public sector, private sector, and universities for the more effective use of resources in R&D and innovation,
29) Increasing efforts to identify, protect, improve, and disseminate local genetic resources and biodiversity in agriculture and forestry,
30) Completing quality and standardization efforts for agricultural and forestry products and expanding certification efforts,
31) Supporting branding, quality, standardization, promotion, and incentive efforts to increase export revenues of agricultural, food, and forestry products grown in our country and in high demand in international markets to desired levels; conducting professional-level promotional activities for products in which we are leaders in global production and increasing their market share;
32) To spread occupational health and safety practices in agriculture and forestry.
33) To comprehensively evaluate all legislation related to agriculture and forestry and establish a simple and consistent legal framework.
34) To renew our registration, transportation, livestock markets, and slaughterhouse infrastructure to ensure effective control of animal movements.
35) Supporting and promoting contractual plant and animal production models that meet agricultural input and financing needs,
36) Increasing productivity in bee product production and diversifying value-added bee products, promoting education on non-honey products, and increasing their consumption
37) Increasing recycling facilities to achieve the zero waste target in waste management, supporting R&D projects aimed at waste utilization,
38) Increasing market diversity with geographically indicated products, branding, and value-added production, reviewing the governance and control processes of geographical indications and completing the legislation,
39) Completing the registration of forests with finalized cadastral surveys in the land registry, resolving property issues encountered in the determination and identification of areas to be excluded from forest boundaries (2/B),
40) Completing the national forest inventory in accordance with international standards,
41) Making our country a center for forest seedling production and marketing in the international arena,
42) Promoting the use of wood, determining structural wood standards, and regulating wood construction legislation,
43) Continuing the identification, protection, development, and monitoring of natural resources and biological diversity,
44) Diversifying non-timber forest products and promoting agroforestry to increase the income levels of forest villagers,
45) Promoting the use of renewable energy systems in agricultural production and forestry activities,
46) Establishing professional standards for activities carried out in the agriculture and forestry sectors, primarily farming, opening vocational training institutions for farming, encouraging young people to pursue education, and developing vocational training in agriculture and forestry,
47) Encouraging the production and use of organic and organomineral fertilizers to reduce chemical fertilizer imports and environmental pollution, and promoting biological and biotechnical control,
48) Guiding producer organizations to increase their effectiveness in the stages of input procurement, production, and marketing,
49) Defining the scope and framework of misinformation in food, enacting legislation to impose criminal penalties on those who spread misinformation,
50) Increasing nutrition literacy,
51) Developing national policies to prevent food loss and waste, increasing national and international cooperation,
52) Making regulations in legislation for the effective deterrence of counterfeiting and adulteration penalties in food,
53) Encouraging international projects aimed at exchanging experience and technical knowledge,
54) Establishing the necessary legal regulations regarding fire safety in the licensing of residences and workplaces within and on the edges of forests,
55) Using high technology and artificial intelligence applications in responding to forest fires,
56) Utilizing convicts serving community service sentences in agricultural and forestry activities carried out by public institutions and organizations,
57) Effective and efficient implementation of measures to combat desertification and erosion; effective cooperation with international organizations,
58) Introduction of income-guaranteed crop insurance to reduce risk and uncertainty, the most significant problem in the agricultural sector,
59) Transitioning to a region- or basin-based management model to maximize the synergy arising from the consolidation of agriculture, forestry, and water management under a single umbrella and effectively reflect this synergy in the economy through regional dynamics,
60) It is proposed that the next Agriculture and Forestry Council be convened in 2024.
