They said “We’re done”, they started again! The import from Hungary will come…
The AKP government went back to importing meat instead of supporting domestic producers to find a solution to rising meat prices. Imports of carcass meat from Hungary, Turkey, butchers, meat breeders and meat products, announced the president of the Federation, Osman Yardimci, in a message he sent to its members.
FIRST ISTANBUL THEN OTHER PROVINCES
In the message, which said that the imported meat will be distributed mainly to Istanbul, the message read: “Within the scope of the measures taken by the Meat-Milk Institution and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry due to high meat prices, carcass meat was imported from Hungary. The distribution will be made in Istanbul in a first stage, and the distribution will be made in other provinces under the coordination of our Federation in the following processes.
“FINISHED NATIONAL PRODUCTION, IMPORT”
The producers reacted to the message shared on social media. The breeder Özgür Durmaz, who reacted to the import instead of supporting the national breeder, “What a nice system, ending national production and importing from abroad, I ask the Ministry of Agriculture, where were you when the producers, who were crushed by costs in the last 4 years, could not earn money and lost their milk, they slaughtered their cows asked.
Producer Halef Aslan also drew attention to feed costs, “Is it an imported solution? We are also against high prices. Because we can’t replace the animal we sell. The cost is very expensive. Both the butcher and the consumer must get used to imported meat. Because the fattening was very, very difficult, ”he said.
HE SAID “WE FINISHED THE IMPORTATION OF MEAT”
In an interview with the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Bekir Pakdemirli, on a TV channel in 2020 and shared on the Ministry’s social media accounts, he said that meat imports into Turkey ended. Pakdemirli used the following expressions in the interview:
– We finalized the importation of meats with the Presidential Government System. There is a cattle fund, there is no way to raise it. In 2022 we will completely end imports related to livestock. As of today, it is enough for our producer and feeder to know that there will be no importation of meat.