Stock fears resurfaced in the Turkish vegetable oil industry; there are ships loaded with oil waiting at the ports due to the war

After Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the oil sector, which imports raw materials from both countries, the ships to transport the products could not come to Turkey. This has caused concern in the industry. Tahir Büyükhelvacıgil, President of the Vegetable Oil Industrialists' Association (BYSD), said, "We are in the 4th place as oilseeds in the top 10 import items of our country. We really need to find a solution to this. Both the pandemic process and the war showed us that we need to be self-sufficient in agriculture. O For this reason, the war inevitably affected this process. Because we were able to use our supply for years, our harvest, our harvest, oilseeds could be sufficient until the end of April. We were always importing after that. This is what we need in our country, around 3 million tons. The development of our population, the increase in tourism When this need is 3 million tons, we can meet 1.7 million tons of it, and we have to import 1.3 million tons of which 55 ...