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TURKISH AGRICULTURE MINISTER ATTENDS CELEBRATION EVENT MARKING FOOD DAY, FAO'S ANNIVERSARY
ISTANBUL (A.A) - 15.10.2010 - Turkish Agriculture and Rural Affairs Minister Mehdi Eker on Friday attended in Istanbul a celebration event marking the Food Day and the 65th anniversary of the foundation of UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Delivering a speech in the meeting, Eker said Turkey had no problem at this time over food and food security, adding his country exerted efforts to help other countries that faced such problems.
"Turkey does not need to worry about its food and food security. In fact, we have a responsibility to solve global issues and we do fulfill that responsibility as well," Eker said.
Eker said Turkey was the eighth biggest country in terms of agricultural output with over 50 billion USD annually, adding that the country had extended over the past four years nearly 720 million USD development aid to foreign countries.
Eker said the number of people facing starvation had grown to 925 million from 840 million in 1996, adding that the main problem was not amount of food being produced.
"The problem is the poverty, it is the lack of fair trade policies and the failure to establish a system which provides necessary means to people living in the rural areas to produce their food with minimum cost and effort," he said, adding that around 1.9 billion people suffered from overnutrition in the world.
Delivering a speech in the meeting, Eker said Turkey had no problem at this time over food and food security, adding his country exerted efforts to help other countries that faced such problems.
"Turkey does not need to worry about its food and food security. In fact, we have a responsibility to solve global issues and we do fulfill that responsibility as well," Eker said.
Eker said Turkey was the eighth biggest country in terms of agricultural output with over 50 billion USD annually, adding that the country had extended over the past four years nearly 720 million USD development aid to foreign countries.
Eker said the number of people facing starvation had grown to 925 million from 840 million in 1996, adding that the main problem was not amount of food being produced.
"The problem is the poverty, it is the lack of fair trade policies and the failure to establish a system which provides necessary means to people living in the rural areas to produce their food with minimum cost and effort," he said, adding that around 1.9 billion people suffered from overnutrition in the world.
