The People's Grocery, which Izmir Metropolitan Municipality opened its sixth branch in Buca Butchers Square in order to deliver healthy, cheap and reliable food to the public, attracts great attention. The Buca Villages Producer Sales Area, established in the same square, brings together the inhabitants of Buchali with non-middlemen every Thursday.
Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyer'People's Grocery Store, which was brought to life with the vision of “Another Agriculture is Possible”, continues to meet with the people of Izmir at different points of the city. Konak Gültepe, the first of which was opened in Kemeraltı, in a short time, Bayraklı Ozkanlar, Karşıyaka Reaching Kyrenia and Menemen Ulukent, People's Bakkalı opened its sixth branch in Buca Butchers Square. In the Buca Villages Producer Sales Area, which is set up every Thursday in the square, natural products meet the citizens of Buchae at 60 looms in total. The market, where 63 producers, mostly women from Belenbaşı, Karacaağaç, Doğancılar, Kırklar villages, and members of the Buca Villages Agricultural Development Cooperative and Buca Women Producer Cooperative, are brought together without intermediaries.
"A bridge with the people's grocer"
Stating that the People's Grocery has been a bridge between millions of citizens in the cities, who have built a wall between each other, and the producers who earn their living with their hard work, the President said. Tunç Soyer, said that they will continue to strengthen this bridge, and will work to spread the project to all of Turkey. President Soyer emphasized that they have adopted an agricultural strategy based on protecting the domestic seeds, processing the produced product and increasing its added value, organizing the producers under the roof of cooperatives or unions, and marketing the products all over Turkey and the world, and stated that the People's Grocery Store and producer markets were born as a result of this strategy.
People of Bucalı who shop from the people's grocer and the producer market are also satisfied. 73-year-old Hüseyin Lip said “The product we bought here is guaranteed; rotten rutubetli, not sour. We are born and raised in Bucharest. We also buy local products from the producer market here. We all know the producers of Buca's villages, ”he said.
What is People's Grocery?
Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerPeople's Grocery, which is among the promises of 's election period, aims to enable cooperatives to market their products and to enable consumers to reach healthy and safe food. Thus, it is aimed to both support the small producer and protect the citizens. The products of producer cooperatives from all over Turkey, especially in Izmir, are offered for sale at Halkın Grocery without intermediaries. There are 400 different products from product groups such as fruits and vegetables, meat, dairy products, various breakfast foods, legumes, olive oil, spices and hygiene materials at the People's Grocery branches. The product variety is increasing day by day with the products procured from cooperatives across the country.
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