GÜNHAN ULUSOY: TURKEY IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST FLOUR EXPORTER
Turkey will close the year as the world’s largest flour exporter, said director of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Eurasia. Turkey is expected to reach 3.3 million tons of flour exports in 2019 and 3.5 million tons in 2020, Günhan Ulusoy, who is also the head of the Turkish Flour Industrialists Federation (TFIF), told Anadolu Agency. While Iraq’s share in Turkey’s overall flour exports was 50 percent in 2018, Ulusoy said, it dropped to 40 percent in the first 10 months of 2019. Despite this decline, Turkey’s flour exports are expected to reach 3.3 million tons at the end of the current year, which is the same level as the last year, he noted, and said the deficit was overcome with flour exports to Yemen. “With this figure, Turkey will close 2019 as the largest flour exporter in the world with its well-developed flour industry and wide export market,” Ulusoy said. The country is expected to reach around 3-3.5 million tons of flour export next year, he adde...