Hayvan Bilimi ve Ürünleri Dergisi
Yazarlar: Kadir KARAKUŞ, Hasan ÇELİKYÜREK, Turgut AYGÜN
Konular:Ziraat, Sütçülük ve Hayvan Bilimleri
Anahtar Kelimeler:Turkey,Saudi Arabia,Live animal,Meat,Export
Özet: With globalization, countries have to increase their competition power. The success of the manufacturers depends on their ability to sell their products in domestic and international markets. In 1980, Turkey was a self-sufficient country in terms of both crop production and animal production. In these years, it exported livestock and animal products especially to Middle Eastern countries. Saudi Arabia imports most of the products that it needs as a consumer society. Saudi Arabia is an important meat importer country that imports about 85% of its food consumption. Saudi Arabia is one of the leading countries in the world that imports poultry meat products around 500 thousand tons per year. Since 2005, while there were ban against import of poultry meat products from Turkey in Saudi Arabia, Turkey aimed to export 150-200 thousand tons of that amount after the removal of ban against imports. Turkey's milk and milk product exports is quite low. Saudi Arabian firms are attempting in order to increase the trade between the two countries by requesting imports of eggs and milk products from Turkey. Saudi Arabia imports 10 million small ruminants per year. Some large companies started to establish livestock farms in Turkey and attempt to meet an important part of the small ruminant need of their country which is up to 10 million annually by benefiting from the grants and other supports given by the Saudi Arabia government. As a result, Turkey and Saudi Arabia will be good partners for livestock and meat products as in past years. In addition, projects about increasing the number of the animals should be implemented mutually and urgently by the authorities and investors of both countries. Especially for agriculture, common projects with the Saudis should be generated in order to evaluate the public lands without selling the territory. Trade agreements for the production based on the properties desired in the field of animal husbandry between Saudi Arabia and Turkey will be an important progress for our animal exports in the future.