GÜNHAN ULUSOY: TURKISH FLOUR EXPORTS ROSE TO 1.05 MILLION DOLLARS
Turkey's main flour exports reached their limits in 2019, with the potential for income from exports in the sector to be doubled through the selling of industrial flour products, such as biscuits and frozen dough, according to the director of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Eurasia, Last year, the country's flour exports rose to $1.05 billion from $1 billion in the previous year in terms of value, while exports dropped by around 50,000 tons to 3.3 million tons on a quantity-basis, Eren Günhan Ulusoy told Anadolu Agency (AA) Sunday. The country is the largest flour exporter and the second-largest pasta exporter in the world, said Ulusoy, who is also the head of the Turkish Flour Industrialists' Federation (TFIF). The price of flour per kilogram in exports reached $322 in 2019, from $304 in the previous year, he said. While there was a decrease in flour exports to Iraq – from 1.62 million tons to 1.36 million tons year-on-year in 2019 – Yemen and V...