Turkey: Oilseeds and Products Update
Turkey’s Marketing Year (MY) 2019/20 sunflowerseed area and production is estimated at 730,000 hectares (Ha) and 1.66 million metric tons (MMT), of which 1.5 MMT is for use as oilseeds. MY 2019/20 soybean planting and production is expected to be about 27,000 hectares and 105,000 MT. Turkey’s oilseed sunflowerseed imports increased by 46 percent during the first eleven months of MY 2018/19 due to an increase in local crush, but sunflowerseed meal imports were down about 5 percent to 870,000 MT during the same period. Turkey continues to export large amounts of sunflowerseed oil despite a significant decline in exports to Iraq.
