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Turkey, which has 33 sugar factories, imported 550 thousand tons of sugar

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Turkiye
Published Jan 7, 2023

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According to the news of Sadettin Inan from Milli Gazete, Turkey started to import sugar after 24 years due to the wrong privatization policy and wrong sugar sales policy, while importing sugar despite 33 sugar factories revealed that the AKP's agricultural policy had completely collapsed. According to TUIK Foreign Trade data, Turkey imported a total of 552 thousand tons of sugar in the 11 months of 2022. Turkey's sugar imports within the scope of DIR vary between 150 thousand and 200 thousand tons on average over the years, while it is thought that 350 thousand tons of the 552 thousand tons of sugar imported in the 11 months of 2022 were put on the market. TURKEY HAS EVEN IMPORTED SUGAR SOLD AT THE groceries! While Turkey is one of the few countries in the world in beet production, the produced beet is processed into sugar in 33 factories. In our country, there are 15 sugar factories owned by the state, 12 owned by the private sector and 6 owned by beet cooperatives. The fact ...
Source: TRHaber
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