İBRAHİM AFYON: TURKISH EGG PRODUCERS ARE GOING THROUGH A NEW CHALLENGE NOWADAYS
In the process that started with the import ban of Iraq, producers who searched for different countries for the eggs they could not export to the region, had problems in transit routes they provided to the new Gulf and African countries through Iran before the Covid-19 outbreak. Producer lobbies in Iran caused difficulties in passing Turkish rival egg farmers from the country. Now, the layers are going through a new challenge with the outbreak. Chairman of Turkish Egg Producers' Association (YUM-BİR) İbrahim Afyon said that Turkey is a self-sufficient country in terms of egg producing, moreover a very powerful country regarding exports Stating that it is the third exporter country in this sense across the world, Afyon added, "In the current period, due to consecutive problems, we have less chance to compete with other countries along with our cost-related problems and we are selling below its value. Markets support the manufacturer in size; we want the manufacturer to...