We welcome to the closing meeting of the 2-years-applied project of “in hazelnut production review of traditional and modern applications”, which has been conducted by our Commodity Exchange and supported by the National Agency of Turkey.
The project team will inform you about the project, which consists of Ordu Governorship, Ordu University and Altınordu Chamber of Agriculture as local partners and TUSCIA (TUŞA) University from Italy and IRTA from Spain as international partners.
It is said in an African proverb; “If the lions do not tell their own stories, we will listen to more hunter stories.” I want to tell you about our institution, Ordu Commodity Exchange and our project vision.
The Ordu Commodity Exchange was established in 1936 and has been providing uninterrupted service since its establishment. Our Exchange, which was a directorate within the Chamber of Commerce when it was established, has gained a detached structure today and has become an institutional and accredited institution with its own service building.
Our commodity exchange, which provides commercial security by tracking the products in its quotation from the production stage to the final stage with its 350 registered members, also creates robust and reliable statistics as it conducts document-based transactions. This also applies to the other 112 Commodity Exchanges across the country. With peace of mind, I can say that “Today, the most accurate and up-to-date statistical data about hazelnuts are created by Ordu Commodity Exchange.”
We immediately share all the data we have with our communication channels with the public. We have a transparent and understandable service standard.
As Ordu Commodity Exchange, we attach importance to making projects, with a particular emphasis on the issues in our job description. We also pay utmost attention to being a partner in projects related to our field of activity.
We believe that projects are magical tools for establishing corporate relations, and as we experience more, we comprehend. The ability of institutions to use their resources efficiently and grow by saving is related to their ability to produce and execute projects. We continue to produce and implement projects with the project office we have created within this understanding.
After completing the conducting of the project, we published a book translated into Turkish, English, Spanish and Italian languages. This printed book will be released to the public.
Within the scope of the project, we prepare a book, which includes the details information that is related to observations and applications of the mobilities of Spain, Turkey and Italy. In addition, we have created a sample hazelnut garden in Ordu University. We will visit the garden after this program. The garden will be allocated as a model for people, who want to create a garden in the future.
Dear Attendees,
Our main aim in our project titled “Review of Traditional and Modern Techniques in Hazelnut Production” and the other projects that we have prepared for this purpose is to draw attention to quality and efficiency in hazelnut. Today, when we check the problems in the sector, we encounter in generally the Price of the hazelnut. However, price is the result of many problems. In fact, the main factors that affect quality and productivity and increase costs are the main problems.
There are also a number of problems in the sector that interact with each other at the “Structural, Production, Marketing and Export” stages. We have to see the problems as a whole and take care of the solution process is also interactive. Although the projects we conduct have a vision of achieving better results, they are essentially aiming to get rid of these problems.
Hazelnut is a production and trade pattern that has no alternative, especially for our region. Believing in this reality, we have to deal with the subject on scientific grounds without populism. We have to be much more sensitive to a product such as a hazelnut, which is a leader in its production and trade, which directly affects the fate of a geographical region.
It should not be reduced the problems of hazelnuts just to “Price”. We agree that production and trade are made to make a profit to make money. Making a profit is like breathing. A commercial activity breathes through the profit and loss mechanism and thus it continues its existence. You cannot alive with just taking breathe without breathing out. In this case, it is useless to build the production and trade just on profit, and when you cannot make a profit, to become worse than to shorten the production and commercial life and to degrade its quality. Therefore, we have to be profitable.
We should know that there are profit and loss in the trade. We should also know that if we don’t attach importance to quality and efficiency and encourage branding, new and strong markets will be damaged.
Dear attendees, in short, are the reality of the high costs that put the price as a problem.
In this context, it is necessary to look at the titles that come to mind first and roughly to reduce the costs.
Agricultural management should be started. Average land size should be increased to profitable scale, methods such as land consolidation should become routine.
Industrial production techniques should be used and labor-intensive production culture should be abandoned.
An effective stock control system should be established.
New markets should be found and a brand should be created.
The final product with value-added should be produced. R&D and P&D should be focused on. Innovative investment and project intellection should be emphasized.
Producer organizations and / or cooperatives need to be implemented.
Elimination of structural problems and enactment of Hazelnut Law Disciplined markets where buyers and sellers come together, namely commodity exchange should be highlighted. As Ordu Commodity Exchange, we also run a project on “sales hall and Spot Exchange Operations”. In the short term, in line with the definition of the stock market, we will bring the structure that the buyer and seller will come together with the publicity principle to the sector.
Especially when our cost is so high in the production process and our efficiency is so low, it is impossible to satisfy the price to be formed satisfactorily.
We take care of to bring together all actors in the sector with a stakeholder perspective with the projects we implement. Making the producer and the merchant hostile to each other by targeting will not serve anything other than enlarging the problems. We also attach importance to R&D and P&D studies in cooperation with university and industry.
We are conscious of number of projects we implemented are not enough. Projects should be measured not by their budget size, but by their impact on the sector. We are looking for value-creating and sustainable projects.
One of the main arguments that will save institutions from focusing on people and events is having of project culture. In this understanding, I would like to thank our partners, who contributed and supported to our project, where we gathered to hold the closing meeting today. I would like to express my sincerity that we intend to be together again in such projects that lead to the culture of producing and sharing together.
Before I end my speech, I wish that the outputs of our project will bring benefits to our city and country. I would like to thank you once again for your participation and contributions, and I offer you all my deepest love and deepest respect.