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The Government of Turkey has just assigned the new Agriculture Minister last month, Ahmet Esref Fakibaba, who has prioritized dealing with high meat prices and reducing beef meat imports.

Labor shortages, compulsory holidays (including three major ones in August and September) as well as voluntary holidays tacked on to create longer leave meant there were fewer days left to collect....

The planned rollout of 10 percent biodiesel blend (B10), initially scheduled on July 1, 2016, and deferred to January 1, 2017, has been postponed indefinitely.

There have not been any significant developments since last year’s 2016 report....

All of Turkey’s wheat harvest has been completed and Marketing Year (MY) 2017/18 total wheat area and production are estimated at 7.8 million hectares and 19.5 million metric tons (MMT).

Following several stagnant years, Turkey’s broiler meat production is recovering – forecast to rise 4 percent and 1 percent in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

MY 2017/18 total sunflowerseed area and production are estimated at 700,000 hectares and 1.55 million MT of which 1.45 million is oilseed and the rest confection seed.

Turkey has delayed the implementation of a Product Verification Monitoring System (PVMS) for another three months.

Depending on the location of orchards and regions, tree nut production was affected by bad weather conditions such as less rainfall in autumn 2016 and winter 2017 which led to drought....

Turkey is forecast to produce 2.5 million metric tons (MMT) of sugar in marketing year (MY) 2017/18.