İBRAHİM AFYON: TURKISH EGG PRODUCERS ARE GOING THROUGH A NEW CHALLENGE NOWADAYS

In the process that started with the import ban of Iraq, producers who searched for different countries for the eggs they could not export to the region, had problems in transit routes they provided to the new Gulf and African countries through Iran before the Covid-19 outbreak.

Producer lobbies in Iran caused difficulties in passing Turkish rival egg farmers from the country. Now, the layers are going through a new challenge with the outbreak.


Chairman of Turkish Egg Producers' Association (YUM-BİR) İbrahim Afyon said that Turkey is a self-sufficient country in terms of egg producing, moreover a very powerful country regarding exports

Stating that it is the third exporter country in this sense across the world, Afyon added, "In the current period, due to consecutive problems, we have less chance to compete with other countries along with our cost-related problems and we are selling below its value. Markets support the manufacturer in size; we want the manufacturer to calculate the cost and determine the sales policy. While an egg cost us 35 kurush (one in a hundred of 1 lira), it is sold in the market even around 30 kurush. The producer is wasting away day by day."

No worries...

While explaining that they produce 85-90 million eggs daily with 100 million laying eggs, Afyon noted that the consumers eat less than an average egg per day.

"But no worries. We have and will have eggs every term. I believe we will be able to make it through these hard days," he concluded...

- Turkish Egg Producers' Association...

Turkish Egg Producers Association is a producer organization that was established in 2006 and approved by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry according to the provisions of the “Law No.5200 on Agricultural Producer Unions”. The association has 12 members which are Ankara, Bolu, Çorum, İzmir, Afyonkarahisar, Kayseri, Konya, Bandırma, Başmakçı, Tavşanlı, Manisa, Samsun, Gaziantep and Balıkesir Egg Producers' Associations and totally 3740 producers are members of these unions. All of our members operate according to the standards set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry...