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Hazelnut Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union (FİSKOBİRLİK) Chairman Lütfi Bayraktar declared that a short while ago he met with the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli and said they could get hazelnuts on behalf of TMO (Turkish Grain Board). Bayraktar stated that the meeting was concluded and the protocol was signed with the relevant institutions on the subject, "As a result of the negotiations we have made, we will start purchasing hazelnuts from the producer to be transferred to the same institution from Monday to September 9" he added. Bayraktar also noted that they would get hazelnuts on behalf of TMO within a certain quota and said, "We will transfer the product we receive every week to TMO. This situation is seen as an extra solution that will prevent the producer from selling hazelnuts under free market conditions." Bayraktar pointed out that in all cooperatives affiliated to FİSKOBİRLİK, they will buy hazelnuts on behalf of TMO s...

Hazelnut Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union (FİSKOBİRLİK), as of today, opened the 2019 product hazelnut purchasing season. Lütfi Bayraktar, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FİSKOBİRLİK said that 50 teams were formed in all of the cooperatives and they started accepting products. Bayraktar stating that they apply a purchase policy through cash and escrow system, "Our farmers will receive the price of the product immediately and those who wish to leave it for later evaluation as depots to our warehouses" he added. Bayraktar also noted that they will be buying the nuts 25 kuruş more of the price per kg that forms in daily market and they aspire to buy all the nuts to be brought to them. "This union belongs to our producers. Therefore we want farmers to give the necessary support to FİSKOBİRLİK" Bayraktar concluded...

Hazelnut Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Association (FİSKOBİRLİK) Chairman of the Board of Directors Lütfi Bayraktar said that FİSKOBİRLİK as of Monday August 19, will be entering the market in all regions and will begin purchases. Bayraktar, in a statement, said that they have completed all preparations for the purchase of new crop nuts. Emphasizing that they will implement the cash and escrow system again in purchases, "The farmers who want it can get the price of nuts immediately" Bayraktar noted. "Those who wish can leave their products to the custody for later evaluation and that all the warehouses of the union are offered to the use of the producers for safety" he added. Stating that FİSKOBİRLİK as of 19 August Monday entering the market in all regions, "Our teams, our warehouses are ready. We expect the purchase day. We will be puchasing at a price somewhat above that realized in free market. We are ready to accept all the product" he c...

Hazelnut Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union (FİSKOBİRLİK) Chairman Lütfi Bayraktar said that hazelnut price has been announced early and the state has decided to intervene in the market on behalf of producers... Pointing out that all the actors in the market will take a position according to this attitude of the state regarding hazelnuts, "Maybe some sectoral representatives were thinking of a higher price but when considering the price of nuts compared to previous years is I would say quite well" he noted. "We will have some contacts involving of FİSKOBİRLİK in the intervener purchasing process, as a matter of fact producers have such an expectation. In the sense of regulating the market such a decision will reflect more positively on the market. Hopefully we will have such an initiative" Bayraktar noted. Explaining that there may be some differences between TMO (Turkish Grain Board) price and free market price, Bayraktar concluded: "This difference...