TARIK TEZEL: CONSUMERS WILL NOT REMAIN WITHOUT DAIRY PRODUCTS THANKS TO SETBİR MEMBERS

Turkey Milk, Meat, Food Industrialists and Producers' Association (SETBİR) Chairman Tarık Tezel said that while Turkish agricultural production processed through right hands and reach to consumers, due to misinformation manufacturers-retailers and the industrialists have been confronted.

Emphasizing a 'value chain' at this point, Tezel said, “If there is no producer at first, we will not have this value chain in food. We need to look at our basic system, such as crop production and animal husbandry with utmost precision. Damage to the smallest part of the chain would be a big problem for all of us. If we organize this value chain well, if we provide the necessary functions of the producers cooperatives and we can produce a production focused on quality and efficiency, then the answers of the expressions of 'the producer produces cheap, the consumer eats expensive, so the middleman wins' will be spontaneously met."

"What is the magic formula in the food chain? Capacity is enough"

Stating that small businesses cannot cope with the costs per unit, Tarık Tezel underlined that by creating a scale economy, this can be optimized with the right planning.

The average annual production of 22 million tonnes of milk processed in industrial organizations across Turkey, but noted that only 10 million tons registered, "The rest emerges that threatens the public health. In the days when we experience this new type of coronavirus outbreak, we repeat our call for hygienic and packaged food to the consumer. Don't worry about consumer supply. National food production has the capacity to feed this country and even more," Tezel added.

"Every day we continue to purchase, process, turn into dairy products and deliver 30 thousand tons of milk out of 62 thousand 900 tons daily produced across Turkey to consumers, under HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Determination of Critical Control Points) hygiene conditions. Therefore it is not possible for our consumers to remain without milk, yogurt and cheese thanks to SETBİR members," he concluded...