Miller Magazine Issue: 119 November 2019

21 NEWS MILLER / NOVEMBER 2019 of the stability we have consolidated our wheat and barley stocks with local grains and also exports at the right time and we will continue to do so. We are ready to take all necessary steps to maintain market stability in the coming period.” he added. Turkish Grain Board General Manager Ahmet Guldal also updated flour industrialists about sale policies of 2019/2020 period and current sale prices: Local Ana- tolia Red Hard Wheat No:2 and exported bread wheat with 12.5 protein rate will be sold for 1,450 TL/ton, exported bread wheat with 13.5 protein rate will be sold for 1,475 TL/ton, local and exported bran types will be sold for 1,225 TL/ton. Guldal stressed that production and trade are sen- sitive issues: “Producers and industrialists that make great effort to bring this food to our tables are highly esteemed for us. We appreciate their work and we also try hard to support them with full force in order to pay their share. Our policies protect interests of our country and support our industrialists to be more successful. Hence we are the number 1 flour exporter and number 2 pasta exporter of the world. In the last 10 years we have doubled flour exports, pasta exports are now 6 times higher than it was 10 years ago. Egg and poultry meat exports are also 4 times higher now. AUSD Board Chairman Ali Ihsan Ozkasikci made the opening speech at the event. He said that they would continue to maintain high level and excellent relations- hips with the government. Ozkasikci also took part in the panel. Ozkasikci stressed “Bread is the main staple of Turkish people. We cannot raise prices because both wheat and bread are products that have significant ef- fects on politics. If we want to increase wheat produc- tion we should either raise prices or subsidize farmers.”