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Claims that the novel coronavirus pandemic will cause a food shortage in Turkey are not rational because the country has no issues with agricultural production, especially of cereals, says an agriculture expert. Turkey, which produces around 20 million tons of wheat annually, is a self-sufficient country, Professor Orhan Özçatalbaş told Anadolu Agency. "Expectations of famine in the next 3-4 years for a country which has planted wheat on seven million hectares of land before the coronavirus epidemic is unrealistic unless there are unusual climatic factors," he said. Touching on Russia's suspension of wheat exports as a protectionist measure due to the coronavirus, he said Turkey imports wheat from Russia for manufacturing and exporting industrial products such as biscuits, flour, pasta and semolina and not for domestic consumption, including bread. He said the country imported 60 million tons of wheat in the last two decades and exported products equivalent to 7...

22 billion dollars export in 10 years... Eren Günhan Ulusoy, Chairman of Turkish Flour Industrialists Association, said that Turkey achieved 3.4 million tons of flour exports, 15 million tons a world total, Turkey is a leading country in this sense... Ulusoy also recalled that needs a powerful import for export of baked goods. Ulusoy stated that the flour exports, which were approximately 170 thousand tons in 2001, exceeded 3.3 million tons last year and said, "We exported about 1 billion dollars of flour despite the wheat import of 1.1 billion dollars last year. We have made exports as the group of wheat products worth 2.4 billion dollars, which is about 1.4 billion dollars gross value added." Ulusoy, looking at the picture in the last 10 years, despite the imports of 12 billion dollars, 22 billion dollars obtained as of exports, a total value of 10 billion dollars was produced, he said. Turkey is ranked eighth in world wheat production, but indicating that becau...