# Turkey's Civil Supply Chain 'From Field and Workshop to Table': Peasants Without Intermediaries, Women's Cooperatives and Fair Consumption Model
!Turkey's Civilian Supply Chain from Field and Workshop to Table
Today, one of the most painful paradoxes is experienced in Türkiye's food system: A peasant who produces tomatoes, citrus fruits or legumes in his field with great effort loses his product to the merchant or middleman even below its cost (5-6 TL per kilo); The same product is offered for sale three days later in huge chain supermarket sections in metropolitan cities with a tag of 45-60 TL. While farmers abandon their land in debt, families living in the city are crushed under food inflation that exceeds their budgets and are forced to put food on their tables that has lost its nutritional value and whose collection date is unknown.
The only winner of this crooked system is; They are speculative intermediaries who do not put a single drop of sweat into the fields, stockpile in cold storages and control retail chains. A similar injustice is faced by local craftsmen and women's cooperatives who produce Anatolian hand-woven rugs, copper pans, pottery and stone mill flour.
To put an end to this injustice, My Memleketim, which brings together village headmen, women's cooperatives, organic producer unions and independent farmers in Türkiye's 973 districts directly with urban consumers. "From the Field and the Workshop" It has implemented the "Civilian Supply Chain to the Table" model. This infrastructure works with the principle of zero intermediary, zero commission (0% commission) and direct producer account; It carries the fertility of the soil to the tables without any intermediaries.
1. Why Civilian and Disintermediary Supply Chain?
Traditional agricultural supply chain; It carries the profit margins of at least 5-6 different intermediaries (middlemen in the field, transporters, market brokers, wholesalers, distributors and chain markets) from field to table. This not only inflates prices but also destroys the freshness of food.
Every penny paid goes directly to the account of the peasant who plows the field and the cooperative; The usurer and broker share is reset.
Products are not kept in gaseous cold storage for weeks; It is collected from the branch upon order and shipped within 24-48 hours.
Instead of sterilized seeds in the laboratory, ancient local ancestral seeds transferred from generation to generation are preserved and spread.
Women's cooperatives established in villages gain economic independence, and the forced migration of young people to cities is prevented.
2. Success Story of Women's Cooperatives: Anatolian Research from Tomato Paste to Noodles
Women's cooperatives, which have grown like an avalanche in recent years throughout Türkiye, have transformed the traditional home economy into a professional and hygienic food movement. These unions, established by village women, process the excess produce in the field and turn it into value-added ancient products:
- Natural Pastes Cooked in the Sun: Pure tomato and pepper pastes boiled on wood fire in Çanakkale and Hatay villages and thickened in the sun under cheesecloths on the roofs.
- Homemade Noodles and Tarhanas with Village Eggs: Noodles made with plenty of milk, village eggs and mill flour; Maraş and Uşak tarhanas fermented with mountain thyme and strained yoghurt.
- Stone Mill Flour and Einkorn Bulgur: Registered genetically unaltered einkorn wheat of Kastamonu with a history of 10,000 years and kavılca wheat of Kars.
- Cold Pressed Genuine Olive Oils: Low-acid pure olive oils that Aydın, Muğla and Balıkesir women's cooperatives collect the early harvest olives before they touch the ground and have them pressed on the same day.
None of these products contain industrial preservatives (benzoate, sorbate), artificial coloring or glucose syrup. Only the name of the village, the cooperative and the woman producing is written on the package.
3. How Does Farm-to-Fork Flow Work?
My Homeland Civilian Supply Chain works in three simple and transparent stages:
- Verified Producer Profile: Producer or cooperative; Registers to the platform free of charge with farmer registration certificate (ÇKS), cooperative registration and agricultural analysis reports. Product photos and harvest date are shared transparently.
- Direct Order and Secure Communication: Urban consumers, apartment solidarity groups or small businesses contact the producer directly through the platform. No intermediary commission is deducted in between.
- Contracted Cargo from Village to Door: Products are shipped by the manufacturer in hygienic wooden crates or vacuum packages; It reaches the consumer's door within 48 hours at the latest.
When 5-10 flats in an apartment building come together and order citrus fruits, olive oil or flour, the shipping cost drops to almost zero.
The farmer knows to whom to sell his produce before removing it from the field; the trader does not have to submit to arbitrary price cuts.
Clean food, free from industrial agricultural chemicals, ensures children's immunity and development.
4. Networks Integrated with My Homeland Ecosystem
The civil supply chain works in perfect harmony with other modules of the Memleketim platform:
- Matching with Geographical Indications: The official registration status and production conditions of the product you purchased 1,600+ Atlas of Geographical Indications
- Planning with Live Harvest Calendar: In which month the product you want will be collected from the field Live Harvest and Fresh Fish Radar
- Neighborhood and Village Markets: For those who want to meet the producers face to face instead of ordering, Neighborhood and Producer Markets Calendar nearest village lists the market.
- Historical Tradesmen's Restaurants: In which traditional kitchens are the cooperative products cooked? Century-Old Tradesmen's Restaurants Guide
. - Local Campaigns: End of season discounts of cooperatives instantly via Opportunities Radar You can follow.
5. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
No. Memleketim platform has the mission of fair trade without intermediaries; No intermediary commission is deducted from the producer or consumer.
Producers' ÇKS (Farmer Registration System) documents, analysis reports and cooperative registrations are examined by our expert committees; Those producing heirloom seeds and traditional production are approved.
Manufacturers use heat-insulated styrofoam packaging and ice molds. Harvested products are shipped on the same day without waiting and delivered within 48 hours at the latest.
Yes, you can order individually. However, in order to minimize the shipping fee and reduce the carbon footprint, it is recommended to order a joint bulk case with the neighborhood.
By applying for a free 'Local Producer' via Memleketim, you can upload your documents to the system and reach millions of conscious consumers directly within 24 hours.
