Some work to be done in agriculture can make great contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation. To summarize these briefly:
• The most important thing is to give up the pressure on farmers to produce more.
• To encourage the use of microbial fertilizers and organic fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers, which were a cold war technology and now cause more harm than good.
• To give up the tillage culture, in which the soil is plowed and turned over several times a year, and the vitality and physical structure of the soil is damaged, and to support farmers for direct planting.
• To give up monopoly agriculture, where our plains are covered with a single species such as cotton, corn, sugar beet, vineyard, citrus fruit or olive, and to encourage production diversity.
• Not allowing agricultural activities without crop rotation, where the same plant is planted on the same land for years. These two practices reduce fertilizer consumption and pesticide use.
• To support businesses that do both, that is, integrated businesses, instead of businesses that do animal husbandry or crop production alone, thus ensuring waste and input management.
Not being able to develop any area except existing areas in cities with a population exceeding 1 million, and not expanding the cities. Instead, increase the rural population (which does not need to work in agriculture). This measure will ensure the protection of agricultural lands and reduce the carbon footprint of food by preventing its long-term preservation and transportation to long distances.
• Frost, hail, frost, etc. Studying the issues of responding to weather events from the ground or from the air.
• Temperature, frost, drought, etc. Breeding of plant species resistant to weather events and covering, netting, soil water retainer, etc. to protect against these risks. development and support of technologies.
• Increasing the ratio of native breeds or hybrid breeds in cattle production in order to improve pasture livestock.
• Development of primary product preservation facilities and technologies.
• Development of plateau agriculture. Especially shifting vegetable farming to these areas.
• To improve technical and administrative capacity in this field to manage increasing plant and animal health problems.
• Including small-scale natural structures in afforestation, grazing and basin water management to manage the risks that sudden rains may cause.
• To inform producers about climate change and to diversify their production activities and income.
• Not to increase the number of large livestock enterprises and organized livestock areas that increase the use of antibiotics and make waste management difficult.
• To launch a national mobilization at all levels against food loss and waste.
• To encourage society to focus on plant protein sources or new generation foods derived from these sources.
• For compliance purposes; To prepare our coastal regions, especially the Mediterranean, for tropical plant cultivation and to raise greenhouses to higher altitudes. Because current agricultural activities will not be possible in these regions due to high temperatures.
• Developing and disseminating prediction and early warning systems for biotic (living: insects, bacteria, etc.) and abiotic (non-living: frost, hail, etc.) risks in agricultural production.
• Expansion of greenhouse production areas and development of new types of greenhouses for fruit production.
• Frost, hail, frost, etc. Studying the issues of responding to weather events from the ground or from the air.
• Temperature, frost, drought, etc. Breeding of plant species resistant to weather events and covering, netting, soil water retainer, etc. to protect against these risks. development and support of technologies.
• Increasing the ratio of native breeds or hybrid breeds in cattle production in order to improve pasture livestock.
• Development of primary product preservation facilities and technologies.
• Development of plateau agriculture. Especially shifting vegetable farming to these areas.
• To improve technical and administrative capacity in this field to manage increasing plant and animal health problems.
• Including small-scale natural structures in afforestation, grazing and basin water management to manage the risks that sudden rains may cause.
• To inform producers about climate change and to diversify their production activities and income.
