HİDAMET ASA: MARMARABİRLİK REACHED ITS HIGHEST EXPORT FIGURES OF OLIVES
Turkey's leading oil manufacturer and world's largest table olive producer, Marmara Olive Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Association (Marmarabirlik), reached its highest export figures in the first three months of this year. The union accordingly brought forward the product price payments to its partners, which were previously planned for the end of April. In a written statement Saturday, the union reported that the export figures were the highest in its history. It noted Marmarabirlik, which purchased 43,500 tons of products in the 2019-2020 period, will make product price payments on Friday, April 10, instead of the previously planned April 30. The TL 100 million ($14.8 million) total payment will be allocated within the scope of the payment plan to the partners, including half of the product prices received as an excess quota. Marmarabirlik Chairman Hidamet Asa, whose views were included in the union statement, said the biggest factor in accelerating the payments planned f...