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While the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has analyzed products such as wheat, onion and potatoes where the demand has increased due to the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19), wheat cultivation, especially pasta, has increased by 10 percent, onion and potatoes in stock are sufficient to the new product period. Durum wheat production increased, potato and onion stocks sufficient... According to the analysis conducted through field visits across the country by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry General Directorate of Plant Production, 68.5 million decares of wheat were planted in the country last year. This year, according to the first evaluations, an increase in durum wheat in the Southeastern Region, from wheat bread to barley in the Eastern Anatolia Region and an increase in durum wheat in the Central Anatolia Region are expected. Grain development reached the desired level as the rains and temperatures at the end of last year were above seasonal norms. To...

Chairman of Turkey Pasta Industrialists Association Abdülkadir Külahçıoğlu said that the industry had a successful season last year. Külahçıoğlu, noting that pasta exports from Turkey to 153 countries, said, "We are in a position competitive in terms of quality. At the same time durum wheat grown in our country, world-class and very good quality. We evaluated the advantages of our industry and have become almost sells pasta to all countries." Külahçıoğlu, referring to the export figures, expressed, "Our pasta exports increased by 5.5 percent in terms of quantity compared to the previous year and reached 1 million 272 thousand 928 tons. We aim to export at least 1 million 300 thousand tons by repeating the achievements we have achieved in the previous periods in 2020." "We anticipate that there will be a good harvest in wheat" Emphasizing the importance of the raw material in sales success, Külahçıoğlu continued as follows: "We anticipate t...