FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 04/01 - TURKEY (27 March)
Despite recent favourable rains, prospects the 2001 winter crops, to be harvested from June, are uncertain due to warm and dry weather in major producing areas. The 2000 wheat production is estimated at 19 million tonnes, about 5 percent above the previous year’s reduced crop but about average.
The government has significantly reduced its grain support prices in June 2000 with the objective of reducing inflationary pressures and lowering government outlays. For instance, support prices for Anatolian Hard Red Wheat, which is most commonly produced, has been reduced by about 14 percent to 166 US$/tonne compared to 1999.
Turkey's state grain board (TMO) purchase from farmers in 2000 is estimated at about 4.5 million tonnes of cereals.
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