PAKDEMİRLİ: WE MONITOR 50 PRODUCTS CLOSELY IN THIS CORONAVIRUS PERIOD
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli said that they closely followed 50 products especially during the coronavirus period. Pakdemirli stated, "We are following all of these products' production, harvest, exports, imports and taxes, etc. But too much onion used to be exported, its prices turned to normal while we restricted the export of it. We did the same with lemon. If we open the export of lemon today, the price will increase to 30 TL. We will not allow it to be exported at least until September." Expressing that they were just about to enter the harvest period at the time of emerging pandemic, Pakdemirli said, "Turkey is a country which can be self-sufficient in agriculture. Do not worry. Not only we've done studies for the harvest time, we have planned for the plantings of next year." Normalisation process... "In addition, we did not want to accumulate and queue in the markets, as in other countries. Before we started th...