Bedri Yaşar: Sugar factory has the capacity to meet one-third of sugar deficit in Turkey

Sugar Beet

Sugar

Turkiye

Published Jun 2, 2022

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IYI Party Samsun Deputy Bedri Yaşar stated that one-third of the sugar deficit could be met with the operation of Çarşamba Sugar Factory and said, "It is ignorance that the government cannot allocate 130 million TL to the factory." IYI Party Samsun Deputy Bedri Yaşar stated that with the realization of the Çarşamba Sugar Factory, which is Turkey's youngest factory with the ability to produce raw sugar, 1000 people can be employed.

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Bedri Yaşar made the following statement on the subject: "IF THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES ITS IMPORT OF SUGAR, THE FARMERS WILL AWAY FROM BEET" "400 thousand tons of sugar is produced from approximately 3 million 300 thousand tons of beet. This means that at least 10 thousand of our farmers cannot produce. The fact that our 6 medium-sized sugar beet factories do not produce for 1 year means that they are closed. The economic crisis in our country is astronomical in terms of agricultural inputs. Beet farmers have started to give up on beet production due to increasing costs. A decrease of at least 20 percent is expected in beet production in 2022. Considering that the annual sugar need is 2 million 500 thousand tons, there will be a sugar deficit of 500 thousand tons. Sugar imports are far from being a solution to this deficit. On the contrary, if sugar imports continue, the farmer will move away from beet and this deficit will increase exponentially every year. "SOLD SUGAR FACTORIES ...

Source: Sondakika