Turkey is the world's largest consumer of pulses, and lentil soup is as important as bread, milk, and eggs, and is an indispensable home-cooked dish for every household. But recently, the common people have found that lentil soup, which was once inexpensive and inexpensive, and has been drunk since childhood, is now afraid that they will not be able to afford it.
Reporter Chen Huihui: Generally speaking, home-cooked restaurants in Turkey are relatively close to the people. One of the most popular dishes in restaurants is lentil soup.
Soaked lentils are boiled with onions and diced carrots, and this is a very popular appetizer soup in Turkey and throughout the Middle East. But recently, lentil soup, which is cheap on weekdays, is also soaring.
According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute, in January 2024, the Turkish Consumer ** Index was 64 year-on-year86%。Of these, the food inflation rate was 6971%。For Turks, lentil soup is as important as bread and eggs, and lentil soup *** makes ordinary people, especially low-income groups, complain. And the restaurant owner also suffers, because under the high inflation, lentils** have been soaring, and all operating costs such as water, electricity, gas, and labor continue to rise, and the menu price adjustment is also a helpless move.
Turkey Istanbul restaurateur Teffik: From last year to now, lentils ** at least ** 300%, but the increase in costs has not all been reflected in **, we must try to control the ** increase as much as possible, because the higher the increase, the faster the loss of customers, now the average daily sale of 100 less lentil soup, turnover at least ** 30%.
Although Turkey is a major consumer of pulses, its domestic soybean production is seriously insufficient due to multiple factors such as the ineffective implementation of agricultural subsidy policies and the ineffective macroeconomic control measures.
Turkey imports more than 60% of its lentils every year, but in recent years, the Turkish currency, the lira, has continued to import beans** in US dollars.
Reporter Chen Huihui: In order to curb the further growth of lentils, Turkey announced that it will exempt all imported lentils from tariffs from early February to the end of June.
Demir, professor of economics at Galata University in Turkey: In the next three or four months, the magnitude of ** may be reduced, but adjusting import and export barriers will not solve the problem in the long run.
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Editor: Angel.