Processing of a million tons of grain from the Russian Federation will not become a burden for Turkey

Turkey has sufficient capacity to process a million tons of grain from Russia into flour and then export it to Africa. A source in the local grain union reported this to TASS, commenting on the agreements reached between the presidents of Turkey and Russia Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin on September 4 in Sochi on the issue of processing and sending Russian grain to poor African countries. Qatar is expected to participate in the implementation of the project. At the same time, in Moscow, as Putin noted, they do not consider it as an alternative to the grain deal, the implementation of which was terminated on July 17. Erdogan, for his part, said that Ankara is “ready to do whatever is required of it.” “Turkey’s grain processing capacity ranges from 27 to 30 million tons per year. They make it possible to process another million tons of grain into flour; this is a purely technical issue and it can be implemented in the near future,” the source said. The main thing, in his ...