Warning from the sheep and goat industry in Turkey: We are sinking because of wrong decisions
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Goat Meat
Frozen Bone-In Beef
Turkiye
Published Oct 22, 2022
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Osman Türkman, President of Gaziantep Breeding Sheep and Goat Breeders' Association, said that the sheep and goats industry was sunk due to wrong decisions.
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Osman Türkman, the President of Gaziantep Breeding Sheep and Goat Breeders' Association, claimed that the sheep and goats sector was sunk due to wrong decisions. Saying, "Are we aware of it? We are destroying the ovine breeding industry because of wrong decisions," Türkman said, remembering that in 2019, the National Agriculture Council made a support statement and decisions were taken to increase the number of ovine animals to the number of people in the country by producing one ovine animal per citizen. It increased their production and capacity and increased the number from 46 million to 58 million in 3 years according to TUIK figures and will continue to increase that, not only the wrong decisions taken by the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in the last months, but the increase in the number of animals accelerated the exits from the sector and the exits were intense. It continues in a way, it will continue,” he said. In his written statement, Türkman ...
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