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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 fo...

In Turkey, "meat, fish and seafood" received the biggest share of food expenditure by 20.9 percent last year... According to Household Budget Survey based on the results of the Turkey Statistical Institute, food and non-alcoholic beverages made up 20.3 percent of total consumption expenditures in 2018. While meat, fish and seafood gets the biggest share from food and non-alcoholic beverages category, bread and cereals with 17.5 percent, vegetables with 15.9 percent, milk, cheese and eggs followed with 13.8 percent. Expenditure groups with the lowest share were other food products with 2.2 percent, coffee, tea and cocoa with 3.2 percent, and soft drinks with 3.9 percent. According to the results of the study, while the share of food and beverages in the total consumption expenditures of the households with the lowest income of 20 percent was 28.7 percent, the households in the highest income with 20 percent allocated 15.4 percent of their total expenditures to food ...