Mustafa Kayhan, the General Manager of the Meat and Milk Institution (ESK), said that they have implemented the works that they have carried out to intervene in the recently increased red meat prices. Emphasizing that they substituted products in the red meat market through the ESK, Kayhan stated that they provided products to industrialists and retailers. Mustafa Kayhan pointed out that measures should be taken in the medium term, and said that it is necessary to ensure the integration of producers and industrialists and that it is important to expand contracted livestock farming.
(Bloomberg) The Turkish government has removed the head of the nation’s Meat & Milk Board after he was accused of mocking the poor over the price of meat.