Amid high bread prices, TurkStat says Turkey self-sufficient in agriculture, wheat production

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Amid the excessive price increases in several agricultural products including sunflower oil and sheat, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has released the Crop Products Balance Sheets for the 2020-2021 period.

The data shows the degree of self-sufficiency and foreign dependence in agricultural products.

Accordingly, the degree of self-sufficiency of cereals (total) was 97.4 percent in the marketing year 2020-2021. It was 102.3 percent in wheat, with 259 percent for durum wheat and 89.2 percent for other types of wheat.

In wheat production, the degree of self-sufficiency was 102.3 percent (259 percent for durum wheat, 89.2 percent for other wheat).

Despite the self-sufficiency of wheat production, bread prices in the country have increased excessively over the past few months as the country's inflation rate hit two-decade high levels.

The TurkStat figures show the kilogram price of bread jumped to 11.3 lira in January from 8.4 lira in October 2021 and 7.11 lira in January 2021.

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☛ According to TurkStat, Degree of self-sufficiency indicates to what extent domestic production of a region covers all the needs or domestic use (all needs of human, animal and industry) of a region. Values smaller than 100 percent indicate a shortfall in supplies.

Fruits, hazelnut and fodder indsutry

For three products; barley, maize and soybean, which are important inputs to the fodder industry, the degree of self-sufficiency was 97.1 percent, 84.9 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively.

The degree of self-sufficiency of hazelnut was 552.9 percent, with the highest degree of self-sufficiency in the fruits and beverage crops, in the marketing year 2020-2021.

The production of all citrus fruits was self-sufficient.

The greater part of the total supply of tea was produced domestically and the degree of self-sufficiency was 94.1 percent.

Self-sufficiency rates of some agricultural products:

• Chickpeas: 122.3 percent
• Rapeseed: 111.2 percent
• Potatoes: 106.5 percent
• Cotton: 103.7 percent
• Wheat: 102.3 percent
• Rye: 100 percent
• Sugar beet: 100 percent
• Oats: 97.6 percent
• Soy: 94.6 percent
• Barley: 97.1 percent
• Dry beans: 92
• Egypt: 84.9 percent
• Rice: 81.2 percent
• Red lentils: 71.2 percent
• Sunflower: 62.5 percent
• Green lentils: 58.7 percent

(HA/VK)