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Where is Turkey in the world's agriculture?

Turkiye
Published Nov 18, 2021

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After the Turkish Grain Congress held in Antalya at the weekend, let's start today's article with a question: "Where is Turkey in world agriculture?" let's say. Let's get the answer to this question from İlknur Menlik, Secretary General of the Federation of Turkish Food and Beverage Industry Associations. Let's start with a data from his speech, which was listened to with great interest in the congress. In 2020, total imports of agricultural and food products worldwide exceeded 1.6 trillion dollars.

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After the Turkish Grain Congress held in Antalya at the weekend, let's start today's article with a question: “Where is Turkey in world agriculture?” let's say. Let's get the answer to this question from İlknur Menlik, Secretary General of the Federation of Turkish Food and Beverage Industry Associations. Let's start with a data from his speech, which was listened to with great interest in the congress. In 2020, total imports of agricultural and food products worldwide exceeded 1.6 trillion dollars. In other words, in 2020, the countries of the world paid 1.6 trillion dollars for agricultural and food products to countries other than themselves. Four important country groups of the world made 75 percent of this allowance. These are “European Union, America, Middle East and BRICS (Russia, China, India, South America and Brazil)”. The European Union takes the lion's share of 600 billion dollars in this group. America comes next with $299 billion. FIVE PRODUCT GROUPS This money ($1.6 ...
Source: Gidatarim
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