TURKISH AGRI.NEWS

"We import expensive wheat and export pasta for cheap." Chairman of Pasta Producers and Industrialists Association (MÜSAD) Nihat Uysallı said that the export figures in the first six months of 2019 showed despite the increase in the amount of pasta exports, they could not achieve the same increase of income. Uysallı shared the information that Turkey takes the third place in the world as the amount of production and the second place in exports just after Italy, whereas the most important competitor in terms of exports Italy's average export unit price exceeds two folds. Uysallı also emphasized that they have the cheapest price among the countries exporting more than 20 tons in 2018 in the pasta exports which Turkey in the second place after Italy and said: "While Italy exports the tonne of pasta by 1,098 dollars, our average export figure per ton is only 455 dollars. Egypt, which is said to be our rival in the African market, exports pasta for a thousa...

Turkey's exports of pasta, compared to the same period last year January-June period, increased by 4.3 percent as the amount stepping up to 613 thousand tons, while being limited to 3 percent increase in value was 287 million dollars. Pasta Producers and Industrialists Association (MÜSAD) said, in a statement, pasta export figures in the first six months of the year unveiled the loss caused by exports of unbranded products in the sector once again. Pasta exports amounted to 74 thousand tons in June with a decrease of 15.1 percent in terms of quantity compared to the same month of the previous year and decreased by 14 percent in value to 35 million dollars. Despite the increase in the tonnage, the lower increase in export revenue stemmed from the decrease in the unit price. While the average unit price per ton was 474 dollars in the first six months of last year, the unit price fell 1.3 percent to 468 dollars in the same period of this year. In June 2018, the price of a ton wa...