Turkey needs to take sugar lessons from Russia. By importing sugar from Russia for the first time in Turkey's history, how much of the sugar beet for countries once again appeared to have a strategic importance.
Although Russia produces the most expensive sugar in the world, it exports it abroad to support the farmer and, due to the strategic importance of sugar beet, produces sugar above its own need.
FIRST TIME IN THE MARKET...
Turkey has imported sugar for the first time in the history of Russia. Made on the basis of import volumes (1400 tonnes) at a very low figure even if the country is to sugar imported from Russia to Turkey sector was met with great concern.
Russia imported sugar within the scope of inward processing regime, while imported sugar will not be used in the domestic market. Under the inward processing regime, while Turkey imported sugar in 2018, sugar imports made between the countries was the first time Russia has entered the. Turkey, within the scope of inward processing regime in 2018 in Morocco, Algeria, Brazil and the world market price of sugar from India had imported over 100 thousand tons of sugar.
RUSSIA SUPPORTS SUGAR BEET FARMER
Sugar imports from Russia, also revealed a distorted policy applied against Turkey's sugar beet. While sugar factories are being privatized and disposed on the grounds that they are damaging, beet production is limited to quota on the grounds that it cannot compete with the world sugar market. However, despite the fact that production costs are higher than Turkey it will allow the sugar beet production in the country on the need for Russia to support the farmers. Russia, due to the importance of beet production for the agriculture of the country, even though more expensive than the world sugar exchange price of the farmer to produce beetroot, the resulting sugar is exported abroad at a loss.
The fact that Russia has its own farmer producing beets above the country's needs and exporting the excess sugar obtained abroad to the detriment of the country shows how strategic sugar beet is for the country's agriculture. Russia while very cheaply buy candy possibility of stock market prices, the high cost of their farmers to sugar beet continued with them to the importance of the sugar beet reveals Volkswagen, 10 sugar mills were privatized without relying on any strategies such as grocers sold in Turkey.
HOW IT IS GOING TO BE CHECKED?
The sugar imported under the inward processing regime must be used in export products. The control of whether these imported sugars were used in the country was previously carried out by the Sugar Authority. The Sugar Authority was closed and all powers were transferred to the Sugar Department which was established under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The Department of Sugar, sugar beet sowing in a healthy way to carry out processes related to the criticism of how to follow the imported sugar sugars cause question marks.
PRODUCTION IN 20 YEARS FALLED 4 MILLION TONS
Sugar beet fields produced agricultural products and the amount received in Turkey, was down considerably based on 20 years ago. With the privatization of sugar factories, as a result of the farmers' withdrawal from production; According to TurkStat data, 22.3 million tons of sugar beets were produced in 500 thousand hectares in 1998, while 18.5 million tons were produced in 2018 on an area of 310 thousand hectares. In 20 years, both production areas and production fell.