BBM 67 - Ağustos - August 2023

BBM • AUGUST - AĞUSTOS 2023 54 INTERVIEW • RÖPORTAJ ers and producers with its seed supports and training activities. Doruk Un, which has made an investment of 75 million TL in this field to date, will be increasing it to a total of 200 million TRY at the end of the year. The goal is to achieve a turnover of 350 million TL in the 2024 season... Doruk Un, which focuses on sustainable agriculture and productivity-based production and creates a value chain from field to table, is accelerating the studies to increase the cultiva- tion areas and productivity of Türkiye as an agricultural country. Doruk Un which closed 2022 with a turnover of 4.1 Billion TRY and aims to grow 46% in 2023 with its warehouse, production and logistics investments and 6 Billion TRY turnover, aims to increase the yield by 20% with its sustainable agriculture and certified seed studies along with its R&D studies until the end of 2023. The brand which has made an investment of 75 million TRY in this field to date, will be increasing it to a total of 200 million TRY until the end of the year. Doruk Tohumculuk has de- termined its 2024 target turnover as 350 million TL, and aims to achieve a turnover of 850 million TRY at the end of next 5 years with an increase of approximately 20% every year. The ecosystem is being destroyed every passing day due to external factors such as fires, floods, windstorms, increase in insect population, deforestation, mining and excessive use of chemical drugs. The decreasing biodiversity, increasing chemi- cal population, and CO2 caused by these factors is affecting agricultural yields adversely. Based on these facts Gürsel Erbap, Chairman and CEO of Doruk Un, underlines that we are entering to a period where we have to be more careful about cultivation, harvest, storage of the agricultural products and their shipment to the regions where they are needed. He also underlined the fact that especially July and August will be the hottest months of the last 100 years, and smart agricultural practises should be given importance to increase the yield. Erbap said “As Doruk Un, we have started your studies in the field to develop nearly 80 types of seed in eight different regions, three of which is in Marmara Region, five in the Central Anatolia and South Eastern Anatolia region. Increasing the incentives to use more certified seeds, determining the supports to the farmers at the time of pur- chasing and sales in accordance to the farmer costs, providing purchase guarantee, developing product based policies instead of collective product policies, along with developing seed types that are resistant to drought and diseases will be important in this process.” also stated that they took an important step for na- tional and domestic varieties by developing 80 seeds of different varieties under Doruk Tohumculuk Umbrella from cool climate grains, warm climate grains, cash crop, to leguminous feed crops. CURRENT WHEAT PRODUCTION CAN BE INCREASED BY 60% Erbap drew attention to soil integration in regions suitable for agriculture for sustainable agriculture, stated that with correct agricultural policies the wheat production in Türkiye can be in- marka, tohum destekleri ve eğitim çalışmaları ile de çiftçi ve üreticiler ile el ele hareket ediyor. Bu alanda 75 milyon TL yatırım gerçekleştiren Doruk Un, yıl sonunda yatırımı 200 milyon TL’ye tamamlayacak. Hedef 2024 sezonunda 350 Milyon TL ciro elde etmek. Sürdürülebilir tarım ve verimlilik esaslı üretimi odağına alan ve tarladan sofraya değer zinciri oluşturan Doruk Un, tarım ülkesi olan Türkiye’de ekim alanlarını ve verimliliği artıracak çalışmalara hız veriyor. 2022 yılını 4,1 milyar TL ciro ile kapatan ve depo, üretim, lojistik yatırımları ile 2023 yılında %46 büyüme ve 6 milyar TL ciro hedefi olan Doruk Un, sürdürülebilir tarım ve sertifikalı tohum çalışmaları ile 2023 sonunda yapmış olduğu Ar-Ge çalışmalarıyla yüzde 20 oranında verim artışı yakalamayı hedefliyor. Bu alanda 75 milyon TL yatırım gerçekleştiren marka, yıl sonuna ka- dar yatırımı 200 milyon TL’ye tamamlayacak. 2024 hedef cirosunu 350 milyon TL olarak belirleyen Doruk Tohumcu- luk, her yıl yaklaşık %20 artışla 5 yıl sonunda 850 milyon TL ciro elde etmeyi hedefliyor.