While Balçık advocates the report they submitted to the President with their solution proposals, "In fact, the industrialist will solve the issue in a right way. What we all want is to apply controls at every stage of the process and to manufacture and market quality cotton at world prices. We see that the same demand also come from our industrialists, let’s work together and fix the problems together.
"In the report we presented, we did not have such request to ban cotton imports. As the Cotton Council, we demanded constructive measures such as pre-announcement of financial grant, encouragement of local cotton in manufacturing conduct. We stated that in order to prevent structural problems, a series of measures from the incentive of licensed warehousing to the commissioning of TMO should be put forward without delay. "
Let's Import Before Finalizing Production
National Cotton Council President Balçık said, "We presented to our President that the whole process from the farmer to the ginning factory should be controlled and audited to provide a cotton supply to the industrialists with the quality and cleanliness they could offer with. We have stated that there is a need to take measures to ensure that our industrialists reach Turkish cotton more easily and at the desired tonnage, and for this, the Product Specialization Exchange should be made functional. While the Turkish textile industrialist needs 1,700 million tons of cotton and the production supply hovers around 800-900 million tons, saying we ban their imports is contrary to our usual business atmosphere, industry and trade. We do not have such a request. However, it is a fact that there is 70-80 thousand tons of Turkish cotton transferred to the new season and there are factories that use 100% imported cotton in production! As a sector, we need to examine why these companies prefer only imports and what we need to do to use Turkish cotton. We believe that cotton production and product quality can be increased with sustainability projects. "
