Turkey’s rice imports are expected to increase to around 350,000 tons in the MY 2013-14 (September to August), up almost 17% from an estimated 300,000 tons in MY 2012-13, according to the USDA Post in Ankara. Turkey’s rice imports started rising in the third quarter of 2012 and are expected to increase in the coming few months, said the Post.
Rice farmers in Turkey are facing difficulties in marketing and low profitability in rice farming compared to barley, sunflower, corn and sugar beet. Rice acreage is estimated to decline to around 98,000 hectares in MY 2013-14 (September to August), down about 5% from around 103,000 hectares in the previous year. As a result, rice production is estimated to decline to around 470,000 tons in MY 2013-14, the lowest in three years and which reduces the rice-sufficiency of the country to 63%, down from 64% in 2012-13 and 67% in 2011-12. Rice consumption in Turkey is mostly unchanged in the last few years at around 750,000 tons per year.
The Post says that the feed industry is growing very fast in Turkey and this is making corn farming more attractive than rice or wheat, both grains being considered luxuries and not staple by the government.
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Friday, 12 April 2013
GM rice importers arrested in Turkey
Turkish media reports that individuals from three companies in the rice import business have been arrested for failure to comply with Turkey's biosafety law, alleging that rice imported by these firms and placed on the Turkish market contains unapproved genetically modified (GM) traits. Two of the companies are involved because of imports of U.S. medium-grain paddy rice from the Mid-South.
No GM rice is produced commercially in the U.S.; the Liberty Link GM trait found in the commercial long-grain supply in 2006 has been effectively eliminated; and no GM traits have ever been detected in U.S. medium-grain rice. The U.S. embassy in Turkey has communicated to senior levels of the Turkish government the lack of GM rice production in the U.S. and the embassy's great concern over the lack of rigor in the sampling and testing of imported U.S. rice for GM presence. Several of the U.S. rice cargoes in question have undergone multiple GM tests, with legal action being taken following a positive test result. Turkey's biosafety law prohibits importing and placing on the market agricultural goods containing unapproved GM traits, even if those traits are at low levels and caused by in-transit contamination from a previous cargo containing a GM product.
Turkey imported 147,757 metric tons of U.S. rice in 2012, valued at $63 million. Consumers in Turkey prefer medium-grain rice, and importers source from the mid-South and California. Paddy rice predominates, and accounted for 72 percent of total imports from the U.S. last year.
USA Rice will continue to assist the Office of Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. embassy and to educate customers and consumers in Turkey about U.S. rice's high quality, safety and lack of GM presence.
No GM rice is produced commercially in the U.S.; the Liberty Link GM trait found in the commercial long-grain supply in 2006 has been effectively eliminated; and no GM traits have ever been detected in U.S. medium-grain rice. The U.S. embassy in Turkey has communicated to senior levels of the Turkish government the lack of GM rice production in the U.S. and the embassy's great concern over the lack of rigor in the sampling and testing of imported U.S. rice for GM presence. Several of the U.S. rice cargoes in question have undergone multiple GM tests, with legal action being taken following a positive test result. Turkey's biosafety law prohibits importing and placing on the market agricultural goods containing unapproved GM traits, even if those traits are at low levels and caused by in-transit contamination from a previous cargo containing a GM product.
Turkey imported 147,757 metric tons of U.S. rice in 2012, valued at $63 million. Consumers in Turkey prefer medium-grain rice, and importers source from the mid-South and California. Paddy rice predominates, and accounted for 72 percent of total imports from the U.S. last year.
USA Rice will continue to assist the Office of Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. embassy and to educate customers and consumers in Turkey about U.S. rice's high quality, safety and lack of GM presence.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Turkey rice tariff quota allocation
The Government of Turkey allocated a duty free rice import quota of 100,000 MT to the Turkish Grain Board (TMO), available until December 31, 2010.
In the Official Gazette dated December 31, 2009, the Government of Turkey allocated a rice import quota of 100,000 MT to the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) at a zero tariff rate, available until December 31, 2010. TMO would like to use 20,000 MT-25,000 MT of the rice quota very soon, in order to build up their stocks. It is known that TMO currently has very limited stocks, although the actual amount is undisclosed.
In MY2009 TMO exported 580,000 MT of wheat, 330,000 MT of barley and 300,000 MT of corn.
In the Official Gazette dated December 31, 2009, the Government of Turkey allocated a rice import quota of 100,000 MT to the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) at a zero tariff rate, available until December 31, 2010. TMO would like to use 20,000 MT-25,000 MT of the rice quota very soon, in order to build up their stocks. It is known that TMO currently has very limited stocks, although the actual amount is undisclosed.
In MY2009 TMO exported 580,000 MT of wheat, 330,000 MT of barley and 300,000 MT of corn.
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