Miller Magazine Issue: 112 April 2019

46 NEWS APRIL 2019 Union (Türkiyem-Bir): “As the feed sector, in 2018, we produced around 25 million tons of compound feed and we hold the first spot among the European Union countries. With these figures, we are in the 7th place in the world ranking leaving Ger- many behind. China holds the top position in the world with 188 tons of compound feed production while the United States has the second position with 177 million tons of production. Brazil comes with the third place with 69 million tons of compound production while India and Russia comes at the fourth and fifth spot with 39 million tons of production. Mexico, which comes ahead of us, has 35 million tons of annual production. As Turkey, in 2019, we expect to further increase our production by at least 1 million tons. I believe that this will continue to increase every year. Small businesses are replaced by big businesses. We are a sector with a turno- ver of 35-40 billion TL. We are dealing with agricultural sector in Turkey. Our first challenge is what measures we will take against the climate change. This is our first priority in agricultural policies, micro policies or macro policies. In the three main subjects, the climate change shows itself. The first is volcanic eruption, the second is sun radiation, and the third is greenhouse effect, which has affected Turkey. Our share dealing with agricultural production in the greenhouse effect is 11 percent. As of Turkey’s feed sec- tor, we are an environment friendly sector. In the last 20 years, there are noticeable production increase in cereal, oilseed, and feed production. Our ce- real growth is increased by only 1 percent during this period. Our oilseed production is increased by 67 percent while our combined feed production is increased to 358 percent. As Turkey, we have to incentivize the rural life. The agricultural lobby should be strengthened, and universi- ty-industry cooperation has to be developed, and the state should withdraw from the trade in a planned fashion.”