TURKISH AGRI.NEWS

Press release... President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the wheat purchase price of 2020 products. Grain intervention purchase price was announced before harvest just like last year. Accordingly, the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) will take from the producer red and white hard bread wheat from 1,650 lira per ton, barley from 1,275 lira, durum wheat from 1,800 lira, rye, oatmeal and triticale from 1,250 lira. The announced prices are compared to last year; increased 24.4 percent in durum wheat, 22.2 percent in bread wheat and 16 percent in barley. There was no rise in the amount of premium increased from 5 kurush per kilo to 10 kurush last year. For the 2020 product, 10 kurush per kilo support support premium will be paid to the farmer. In addition to these prices, our farmer will receive an additional income of 230 liras per ton with diesel, fertilizer, certified seeds and other supports, together with 10 kurush per kilo premium. Noting that the announced prices are interven...

Eren Günhan Ulusoy, Chairman of Turkish Flour Industrialists Association, said that Turkey needs 12 million tons of licensed warehouse for grain... In Turkey, underlining that young people don't want to be involved in agriculture, Ulusoy said, "The average age of citizens engaged in agriculture around 50, more than 20 years on average. So they have limited access to information and not open to innovation." "Divided lands by inheritance falls down yields and the reduction of income leads people not to invest in technology, thus farmers lean to traditional methods" Ulusoy noted. Stating that farmers being helpless against merchants and industrialists because of their warehouse and financial difficulties, Ulusoy unveiled, "There is a simple model for this in the grain market.  Farmers can put their products in a licensed warehouse, get an electronic product certificate in return of this and then apply to a bank for credits while gaining power of long t...