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The 11-month export revenue of the cereals, pulses, oil seeds and products sector, which continues to be the export leader in Southeastern Anatolia by realising 29.1 percent of the total exports of the region, has reached 3.1 billion dollars. The share of the region, which exports the most in Türkiye in the field of cereals, was 28.6 percent in the sector as a whole. Due to the decline in wheat flour exports this year, pasta and sunflower oil stood out as the most exported products in the region. In the 11-month period when pasta exports from the Southeastern Anatolia approached the 1 million tonne limit, exporters in the region made 64.7 of the country’s total pasta exports and earned 560 million dollars. The largest export market was Iraq with a share of 33.5 percent, followed by Syria and the USA.
‘There is a potential for an increase of nearly 100 percent in our cereal exports to Syria’
Celal Kadooğlu, Chair of the Southeastern Anatolia Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association, evaluating the developments in Syria, which ranks second with a share of 8.1 percent in the region’s cereal exports.
“The downward trend observed on the demand side due to the stagnation in the global economy this year was not reflected in our trade with Syria in the past 11 months. Our region’s cereal exports to Syria in this period exceeded 250 million dollars with a rise of 10 percent. This rate, which corresponds to 54 percent of the sector’s exports of 457 million dollars across Türkiye, shows how important Syria is for our region” he said.
“However, it is difficult to say that this current trade volume reflects the real potential between the two countries due to the internal turmoil in the country and the long-standing war conditions. For example, we export more than 4 times as much grain to Iraq, which is about twice the size of Syria in terms of population. This means that there is a potential for a spike of nearly 100 percent in Syria; we would like to offer Syria more of our opportunities in terms of food supply security,” he added…
