Turkish sheep and goat breeders

Published Dec 22, 2023

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Chairman Nihat Çelik of TÜDKİYEB emphasized the need for breeders to have control over the pricing of their products, as they currently do not have a say in the prices despite their hard work. He proposed that breeders' associations should play an active role in determining prices in the market to ensure fair earnings for producers. Çelik also highlighted the importance of small livestock farming as the solution to the red meat problem, urging for policies to support and encourage this sector in order to minimize issues in red meat production.

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Nihat Çelik, Chairman of the Central Union of Turkish Sheep and Goat Breeders (TÜDKİYEB), stated that the breeders who turned their labor into the labor of 85 million people deserve all kinds of praise and said, "The Unions should determine the prices." Çelik pointed out that breeders cannot determine the prices of the products they produce themselves and said, "Our breeders cannot determine the price of the products they produce or the animals they raise. They produce and raise, but the prices are determined by others. Others earn, but the producer does not. While feed raw materials are mostly imported, here too, the importer earns through the breeders, but the breeder Those who import butchered animals or meat gain. Our growers are at a loss. The situation is no different in milk. Milk prices are determined by the industrialists, not the producers. Our demand is that the prices of both meat and milk are determined by Breeders and Producers Associations. Breeders' Associations ...

Source: Kamu3