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According to TURKSTAT data, while Türkiye is self-sufficient in most of the crops, the rate of meeting domestic consumption remains low in some crops such as rice, cotton and maize. While the level of self-sufficiency is high in bread wheat and vegetables, lower figures are noteworthy in some crops.
While Türkiye is self-sufficient in most of the crops, it cannot fully meet domestic consumption in rice, cotton, maize, red and green lentils, dry beans, sunflower and soybean.
According to the ‘Crop Balance Tables’ for 2024 obtained from TURKSTAT Directorate, the degree to which domestic production meets domestic demand (degree of sufficiency) was 111.9 percent in the 2023-2024 market period for the total of cereal crops.
While the sufficiency level is above 100 percent in bread and durum wheat and barley, fruits and beverage plants, vegetables and citrus fruits, production in some products is too low to meet domestic consumption.
The sufficiency level in cotton, where serious production was made for a period, is 97.7 percent.
In corn, which is used as oil and fodder and has a high demand in the world, this rate remains at 96.5 per cent and in sunflower at 71.9 per cent.
The sufficiency level was 91 percent for red lentils, 84.5 percent for dry beans, 77.5 percent for green lentils, 71.8 percent for rice and 4.1 percent for soybean.
The ratio of production to domestic consumption was 70.6 percent for almonds with an annual per capita consumption of 2.7 kilograms and 80.3 percent for walnuts with an annual per capita consumption of 5 kilograms…
