September 22, 2020

Turkey's red meat production at 1,201,469 tonnes, minister says

At 2.7%, the annual average growth rate of Turkey's agriculture sector is much higher than its OECD and EU peers in the last 10 years, the country's treasury and finance minister said, according to a Hürriyet Daily News report.

"Our agricultural export figure has increased to $19.4 billion from $3.7 billion in 2002. Red meat production has increased from 366,658 tonnes to 1,201,469 tonnes," Berat Albayrak said in a tweet on September 17.

"Our yearly growth rate of 2.7% in the agricultural sector is well ahead of the OECD and EU countries," he added.

Albayrak also shared a video comparing the developments in Turkey's agricultural sector in the last 10 years.

The video shows that the average agricultural growth rates among the OECD and EU countries are 1.3% and 0.5%, respectively.

In the last 17 years, white meat production has also increased from 905,220 tonnes to nearly 2.2 million tonnes, according to the video.

As a self-sufficient country in agriculture and food, Turkey exports 1,827 different agricultural products to 193 countries.

The total export amount of agricultural exports in a year is around $18 billion.

- Hürriyet Daily News