BBM Magazine Issue-Sayı: 48 January-Ocak 2022

42 COVER STORY • KAPAK DOSYASI BBM / OCAK 2022 • JANUARY 2022 tries already mentioned, and all exports are carried out within the scope of the inward processing regime (IR) provided that wheat has been imported beforehand. Fi- nal exports to other countries are permitted under certain conditions. With the start of the execution, exports have started to recover and it is estimated that exports in 2021 will come close to the amount in 2020. On the other hand, the de- mands from Pacific and Far East countries such as Japan, Malaysia, and China, which demand high value-added and high-priced pasta produced with "domestic durum wheat", are continuing to be met. Our efforts to create the identity of "Anatolian Durum Wheat" in an attempt to strengthen the brand perception of Turkish Pasta and to create brand value have not been interrupted. DURUM WHEAT CULTIVATION AREA IS DECREASING Wheat is a prominent grain for all the world in terms of cultivation and production. Wheat, which is an indispens- able element of human nutrition, will maintain its strategic significance in the future. According to TURKSTAT data, wheat has a share of 29.9% in the agricultural area. While our pasta export, which was 164 thousand 412 tons in 2005, increased to 1 million 464 thousand tons in 2020, 20 million decares of durum wheat cultivated area in 2005 decreased to 12 million 581 thousand decares by 2020. World's top durum wheat producers are Canada, Italy and Turkey. In the 2020, 21% of global durum wheat pro- duction took place in EU countries (11% in Italy), 20% in Canada and 12% in Turkey. Other important producing countries are the USA, Algeria, Mexico and Kazakhstan. Together with climate change, the pandemic has made the strategic importance of agricultural and food products even more evident. As the global demand for agricultural and food products increases as countries increase their stocks, producer countries limit the export of agricultural and food products for their own food security. For this rea- son, prices of all agricultural and food, including wheat, keep increasing. WE MUST ACT IMMEDIATELY FOR GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY According to the World Food Organization (FAO) re- ports, the grain price index increased by 3.1% in November compared to October, and by 23.3% compared to Novem- ber of the previous year, and by 27.3 percent in the Food Price Index compared to the same month of the previous year. Increases in prices of agricultural products and food kati ihracatı yapılamamakta olup, tüm ihracatlar önceden buğday ithalatı yapılması kaydıyla dahilde işleme rejimi (DİR) kapsamında gerçekleştirilmektedir. Diğer ülkelere yapılacak olan kati ihracata ise, belirli şartlarla izin veril- mektedir. Uygulamanın başlaması ile ihracatımız toparlanmaya başlamış olup, 2021 yılı ihracatımızın 2020 yılı miktarına yaklaşacağı tahmin edilmektedir. Öte yandan özellikle ka- liteli, “yerli makarnalık buğday” ile üretilmiş yüksek katma değerli ve yüksek fiyatlı makarna talep eden Japonya, Malezya, Çin gibi Pasifik ve Uzakdoğu ülkelerinin talep- leri de karşılanmaya devam edilmektedir. Türk Makarnası marka algısını güçlendirmek ve marka değeri oluşturmak için "Anadolu Durum Buğdayı" kimliğinin oluşturulmasına yönelik çalışmalarımız da sekteye uğramamıştır. MAKARNALIK BUĞDAY EKİM ALANLARI AZALIYOR Buğday, dünyada ve Türkiye’de ekiliş ve üretim ba- kımından ilk sıralarda yer alan önemli bir tahıldır. İnsan