Turkey: Great abundance in domestic feed

Published 2020년 10월 30일

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Farmers in Turkey are increasing the production of nutritious feed crops, such as sorghum, triticale, and sainfoin, to reduce costs and provide better nutrition for their animals. These crops account for 45 to 60 percent of their expenses. The country has also abolished customs duties on importing raw materials for compound feed production for two months. However, high prices for wheat, barley, corn, and sunflower due to the pandemic have led to a deficit in milk/feed parity and a need for increased support premiums. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is providing price supports for these forage crops, which are more cost-effective in terms of nutrition and resources compared to cereals.

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While the animals that retreated to their barns with the cooling of the weather now need more feed, farmers have turned to nutritious domestic feed production. According to the statements of large and small breeders who are breeders and milk producers, animal feed accounts for 45 to 60 percent of their costs. Production of substitute products in feed also reduces costs. The high increases in the production of sorghum, triticale, sainfoin, maize for silage, reygras (grass grass), which were previously evaluated in small quantities in cereals, became remarkable. Turkey Statistics Institute (TSI) 2020 2 Crop Production Forecast proves this increase. Accordingly, the product whose production increased the most in 2020 was sorghum. Sorghum production, which is preferred especially for use as animal feed, increased from 4 tons in 2019 to 541 tons in 2020. Production increase was 13.425 percent. Again, sainfoin production increased from 111 tons to 248 tons. The increase was 123.4 ...

Source: Milliyet Agri News