From the Field to Policy: The Anatolian Farmers' Council and Its Reports
The project contract foresees a rights-based farmers' council based in Ankara, with branches in Şanlıurfa, Adana, İzmir and Sakarya. Its purpose is to build dialogue between farmers and policymakers at local and national level, structured around the three stages of production: planning, harvest and marketing. On the project's home page this body appears as the Anatolian Farmers' Council (Anadolu Çiftçi Meclisi, AÇM).
From five provinces to a national picture
According to a news item published on the project website on 3 February 2026, the Council's national policy dialogue meeting compared the experience of producers from different river basins. The regional reviews highlighted marketing problems and import pressure in Adana, climate stress and high input costs in Şanlıurfa, weak processing and sales channels for medicinal and aromatic plants in İzmir, market volatility and poor planning in Sakarya, and drought risk in Ankara. One of the shared conclusions was that farmers should be active partners in agricultural policy decisions, not passive implementers.
Two reports
The Agricultural Policy Monitoring Report, published on 25 January 2026, reviews the 2025 production year across planning, harvest and marketing, and concludes that 2025 policy was strong at the planning stage but only moderate in data-based monitoring of harvest and marketing. The Anatolian Farmers' Council 2025 Rights-Based Policy Report, published on 13 February 2026, sets out seven policy recommendations and five advocacy priorities: compensating cost increases between sowing and harvest, a single fast-track protection protocol for frost and drought, a preventive transformation package for smart irrigation and precision farming, district-level scorecards on the impact of support, and tools that strengthen farmers' access to markets. The report notes that a scan of parliamentary questions found 254 on agriculture but none on precision farming or smart irrigation, and presents this as a sign that preventive policy gets too little attention.
Meeting the Minister
According to a news item published on the project website on 31 January 2026, a TARIMKON delegation met the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, İbrahim Yumaklı. The meeting covered work on a centre for high value-added products and field-based assessments of planning, harvest and marketing at national level. According to the article, both sides agreed to continue developing this field-based, data-driven and rights-based approach in line with the Ministry's policies.