Monday, November 8, 2010
AKSARAY - Hürriyet Daily News
 Turkish Industry and Trade Minister Nihat Ergün, Sütaş Board Chairman MuharremYılmaz and Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker pose at the opening ceremony of a new dairy facility in Aksaray. |
Sütaş, a Turkish dairy firm with 15.6 percent market share, launched a $100 million investment in the Central Anatolian province of Aksaray on Sunday, opening a new plant with an annual production capacity of 400 million liters of milk.
The new facility will create 1,500 jobs, said Sütaş executives at an opening ceremony in Aksaray attended by two Turkish ministers.
“Thanks to this new plant in the middle of Anatolia, we will be closer to developing markets to meet the increasing demand for dairy products,” said Muharrem Yılmaz, the chairman of the board.
Celebrating the company’s 35th anniversary, Yılmaz said, “The plant will create an income opportunity for 40,000 families in the region.”The plant will produce nearly 400 million liters of milk, 200 tons of compound feed, and 2,500 studs for milk production per year.
Sütaş has produced dairy products at its main location in the northwestern province of Karacabey for 35 years. The Aksaray plant is its second production facility.
“Sütaş will expand its production capacity by investing $250 million more in another two plants by 2012, with four plants at the end.” Yılmaz said. The additional $150 million in investments will be in two separate facilities in the eastern province of Erzurum and the western province of Denizli, the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review has learned.
The total number of the company’s employees will increase to 5,000 in the next two years, Yılmaz said.
“Food and health security is the top priority for government policies,” said Turkish Industry and Trade Minister Nihat Ergün, speaking at the ceremony. Sütaş brought “know-how” to Central Anatolia with this investment, Ergün said. “The investment of Sütaş will pave the way to turn villagers of the region into expert farmers,” said Ergün.
The minister said, “We brought the water to Harran Plain in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa nearly a decade ago, but we could not inform the farmers about its efficient use and the fertile plain turned into a desert in just a couple of years.” Due to faulty planning and mismanagement of irrigation schemes in the region, the land deteriorated in the ’90s, the minister said.
“A new project will be launched soon to save Harran Plain.”
“Turkey has increased the total share of animal breeders to 22.3 percent in total agricultural support budgets,” said Turkish Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker. The minister said the total share of support given for animal breeding was only 4 percent eight years ago. “Turkey has ranked as the eighth biggest agricultural economy in recent years.”
The new facility will create 1,500 jobs, said Sütaş executives at an opening ceremony in Aksaray attended by two Turkish ministers.
“Thanks to this new plant in the middle of Anatolia, we will be closer to developing markets to meet the increasing demand for dairy products,” said Muharrem Yılmaz, the chairman of the board.
Celebrating the company’s 35th anniversary, Yılmaz said, “The plant will create an income opportunity for 40,000 families in the region.”The plant will produce nearly 400 million liters of milk, 200 tons of compound feed, and 2,500 studs for milk production per year.
Sütaş has produced dairy products at its main location in the northwestern province of Karacabey for 35 years. The Aksaray plant is its second production facility.
“Sütaş will expand its production capacity by investing $250 million more in another two plants by 2012, with four plants at the end.” Yılmaz said. The additional $150 million in investments will be in two separate facilities in the eastern province of Erzurum and the western province of Denizli, the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review has learned.
The total number of the company’s employees will increase to 5,000 in the next two years, Yılmaz said.
“Food and health security is the top priority for government policies,” said Turkish Industry and Trade Minister Nihat Ergün, speaking at the ceremony. Sütaş brought “know-how” to Central Anatolia with this investment, Ergün said. “The investment of Sütaş will pave the way to turn villagers of the region into expert farmers,” said Ergün.
The minister said, “We brought the water to Harran Plain in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa nearly a decade ago, but we could not inform the farmers about its efficient use and the fertile plain turned into a desert in just a couple of years.” Due to faulty planning and mismanagement of irrigation schemes in the region, the land deteriorated in the ’90s, the minister said.
“A new project will be launched soon to save Harran Plain.”
“Turkey has increased the total share of animal breeders to 22.3 percent in total agricultural support budgets,” said Turkish Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker. The minister said the total share of support given for animal breeding was only 4 percent eight years ago. “Turkey has ranked as the eighth biggest agricultural economy in recent years.”
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