Turkey: Ground beef cost 300 liras, Deputy Minister of Agriculture went to Poland to find imported animals

Published 2023년 3월 9일

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Turkey is facing a meat crisis due to incorrect policies implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in animal husbandry, leading to a significant increase in meat prices. Domestic production is unable to meet demand, and the Ministry is struggling to find live animals to import. The Ministry has abandoned its commitment not to import livestock and has imported butchery animals and meat from various countries, but the lack of sufficient livestock for import continues to fuel the crisis. The ministry has also been criticized for purchasing meat from producers for 116 liras and selling it for 145 liras to butchers in Istanbul, prompting the question "Are you an enemy of the producer?"

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According to the news of Sadettin Inan from Milli Gazete, the wrong policies implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in animal husbandry dragged Turkey into a great meat crisis. While carcass cutting prices were based on 190 liras, the weight of minced meat increased to 280 liras. While domestic production is being completed, the Ministry cannot find live animals to import from abroad. As the crisis deepened, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı and Deputy General Manager of the IHC, Mustafa Kayhan, went to Poland to make import connections, revealing the extent of the crisis. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE SHELFLED ITS COMMITMENT TO NO IMPORT The commitment of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry not to import in livestock was shelved. While hundreds of thousands of broodstock went to slaughter last year, especially due to the low milk prices, this situation also negatively affected the number of animals for slaughter. With the decrease in the ...

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