Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality has been turning the grass mowed from roadsides and airlines into bales and distributing them with a 100 percent grant to farmers who make a living from animal husbandry in rural areas for two years.

With the instruction of Mayor Yücel Yılmaz, who has given great importance to rural development and provided more than 300 million liras of support to producers since the day he took office, the Metropolitan Municipality mows the grass that grows spontaneously on roadsides and airline lands and grants it to farmers who live on animal husbandry. For 2 years, the Metropolitan Municipality, which has been entering tenders, mowing the grasses and turning them into bales, distributes all of the bales of grasses mowed as life water to small businesses in the countryside with a 100 percent grant.

BALES OF GRASS DISTRIBUTED TO OVER 500 FARMERS

Serkan Akça, Head of Metropolitan Municipality Rural Services Department, said that they continue to support farmers under the leadership of Mayor Yücel Yılmaz in Balıkesir, the city of agriculture, and added: "As the Department of Rural Services, we have many supports for our farmers from seeds and seedlings, saplings, livestock support, agricultural equipment, beekeeping support, pasture improvement and improvement of field roads. Since last year, we have been receiving tenders to mow the grass of the airports in Balıkesir to be given to our farmers with 100 percent grant. We have made our plans with the instructions of Yücel President and we have been receiving tenders for 2 years. Both the grass there is not wasted and we distribute it to our farmers with a 100 percent grant. We have provided grass support to more than 500 farmers, including farmers who were damaged in fires and disasters."

The farmers who loaded the bales of grass onto their tractors thanked the Metropolitan Municipality for their support.