Kadooglu, President of the Southeastern Anatolia Grains, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association, announced that they increased exports by 10% in the first three months of the year, reaching $836.5 million.
Celal Kadooglu stated that pasta exports rank first among the basic food products in the region, followed by wheat flour, sunflower seed oil and sweet biscuits-wafers.
Kadooglu stated that the export increase approached 35% in sweet biscuits and wafers and 45% in cocoa products, and that the increase rate in non-cocoa sugar and sugar products exports was approximately 120%. He stated that during this period, when goods sales to Africa decreased by 9.4%, there was a 15.4% increase in the Middle East, where the most exports were made.
Evaluating the effects of the restrictions imposed on the import of food products by Iraq, which has an important place in the export of the grain sector, on sectoral exports, Kadooglu said:
“The grains, pulses, oilseeds and products sector, which was the export leader in the Southeastern Anatolia region in the first quarter, increased its exports by 10% to $836.5 million. Our companies in Southeastern Anatolia sell an average of $100 million of basic food products to Iraq per month. These data mean that more than half of the sector’s total exports to Iraq are made from our region. Iraq’s share in Turkiye’s total grain exports of $3.1 billion in the first quarter was $583 million. We believe that the visit of our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, planned to be held in Iraq in April, will make a great contribution to the development of commercial relations between the two countries.”
Source: Trthaber / Prepared by Irem Yildiz