Turkish company plans to export fresh meat to Middle East

Sevim Songün Demirezen sevim.songun@hurriyet.com.tr One of Turkey’s leading red meat companies is prepared to export fresh meat to the regional countries, particularly to the Middle East, with its stock farm located in the southern part of the country.

Namet, a Turkish red meat production and processing company, plans to export fresh red meat to Middle Eastern countries to meet the demand for fresh and high-quality products in this market.

The company bought a livestock farm with the capacity for 23,000 animals in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa last year from Koç Holding with an investment of 15.5 million Turkish Liras and plans for this farm to be the key in opening up to foreign markets.

“The market in the Middle East is both geographically close to us and our palatal delights are similar. The consumption of meat is very large, but the production is low in this market. This is why we want to start our exports there first,” Faruk Kayar, deputy executive director of Namet, said in a recent press conference held in Şanlıurfa. “The people in the Middle East are fed up with frozen meat products.

Namet will make a difference by providing fresh meat to this market apart from a large variety of our other products,” said Kayar, a member of Kayar family, which has worked in the red meat business for four generations.

Kayar said they will use the advantage of the location of their livestock breeding farm in Şanlıurfa, in which they currently have 13,000 cattle. “We can deliver the fresh red meat, produced at the Şanlıurfa farm and carried in refrigerated trucks, to Jeddah in 46 hours,” Kayar told a group of reporters. The company has also the advantage of...