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“Hazelnut purchases should be made through Fiskobirlik!”

Cemil Pehlevan, Head of Agricultural Engineers Chamber Trabzon Branch: Hazelnut purchases should be made through Fiskobirlik!

Cemil Pehlevan

Cemil Pehlevan stated that Fiskobirlik (Union of Hazelnut Agriculture Sales Cooperatives) should be used instead of the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) in determining hazelnut prices. Pehlevan also emphasised the importance of hazelnut for Türkiye and said that producers should be protected against monopolisation.

Pehlevan, regarding hazelnut prices, said, “The first thing to be done is to ensure that the producers are protected against monopolisation by creating a purchasing policy through Fiskobirlik, which is the state’s hazelnut producer’s organisation, not through the Turkish Grain Board (TMO).”

Pointing out that approximately 75 percent of the hazelnuts exported to the world every year are supplied from Türkiye, Pehlevan explained, “Hazelnut is the source of livelihood of a significant part of the people of the Black Sea region. At the same time, the social dimension of hazelnut is also very important. With 500 thousand farmers on 720 thousand hectares in 16 provinces, 123 districts and 3 thousand 200 villages from Düzce to Artvin, Trabzon to Gümüşhane and Tokat, approximately 75 percent of the hazelnut, which is subject to the world’s hazelnut and its products export every year, is supplied from our country.”

“If we take into account the producers, traders, factories and exporters, it directly and indirectly concerns more than 5 million people. Hazelnut policies, which have such a wide sphere of influence, are formulated with much more sensitivity,” Pehlevan added…

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