Miller Magazine Issue: 144 December 2021

77 INTERVIEW MILLER / december 2021 loads due to our field of activity. We aim to reach our strategy of increasing our volume at shorter notice. Could you give information about the countries you do business with? I can roughly list them as Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Georgia, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Lebanon, Mexico, Egypt, Poland, Rus- sia, Romania, and Ukraine. WE MUSTN'T LOSE FLOUR AND PASTA EXPORT MARKETS As a company, you have a great contribution to the flour and pasta export of Turkey. Can you give us in- formation about the effects of Climate Change and the Global Pandemic on the sector? Turkey ranks first in the world in flour export and sec- ond in pasta export. This means a large industry and sec- tor. We, as Taban Gıda, support almost all middle and higher scale producers by supplying them with wheat. We can say that we supply products for export. Wheat policies have to be managed correctly in order not to lose this power and to develop and support exports. For sustainable agriculture, substantial projects must be made all over the world and emergency action plans must be brought into action. It is said that the global tem- perature will increase by 1.5 degrees. For this reason, drought-tolerant smart seeds must be produced. The global pandemic mostly causes changes in consumption habits and extraordinary trade volumes due to different problems (such as sea and land transportation). From time to time, this situation puts the sector players in a difficult situation. Mr. Hacihaliloğlu, is there anything else you would like to add or share with our readers? Indeed, there is a lot to be said. But I want to draw attention to the most important point again. Regarding these strategic products, let's bring all the necessary steps into action in a planned manner, in order to pro- duce enough products at least for ourselves. Let's put aside searching for solutions after the fat is in the fire and seek proactive agricultural policies that will solve the problems before they occur. I hope we will see bet- ter days.