2022 Chicken Export and Import Data in Turkey

With the worldwide speeding up inflation and the disrupted supply chain chaos, red meat has became more expensive. Also, the choice of chicken as the primary source of protein popularised. Moreover, with the cost of chicken feed, energy and transport increasing, also Omicron is disrupting every part of the production line, shortage of chicken becomes a worldwide issue. Labor shortages, lack of truck drivers, and shortages of packaging materials like plastic, paper, and aluminum are all contributing to surge the chicken price rapidly. In May 2022, US retail chicken price has reached the highest point of the past 15 years ($3.70/kg) and about 20% more than the last 10 year average price. As refer to the Trade Data Pro's statistical chart below: ( For more recent value, please log into Trade Data Pro Database for the full import/export data)

* Data Source from theglobaleconomy: Chicken Meat Prices

In 2021, the worldwide broiler meat export volume is 13,326,000 Metric Tons with the leading export countries being Brazil and United States.

As Turkey is one of the largest chicken meat consumption countries and exporting countries (11th in the world), chicken meat exports in Turkey reached the record high (485,100 metric tons) in the past 5 years. Also, Turkey's chicken export was predicted to be increased around 10% to 539,000 metric tons in 2022 according to our import/export trade database's estimation.

The anticipated strong increment in Turkish broiler meat export is mainly because of the demand increase in China and Turkish neighboring countries, as well as the uncertainty of Ukrainian chicken exports. With the increment in chicken exports, domestic consumption of chicken meat in Turkey stays relatively flat from year to year. In 2020, Turkey produced 2,136,000 MT of chicken meat and consumed 1,696,000 MT of chicken meat. In 2021, Turkey produced 2,246,000 MT of chicken meat and consumed 1,683,000 MT of chicken meat.

* Data source from USDA: Data accroding Poultry and Products Semi Annual- TURKEY

From this article, you will understand more details about boiler meat exports in Turkey through the following questions:

1.      Which are the top Chicken Meat exporters in Turkey?

2.      Top Importing Countries of Chicken Meat from Turkey.

3.      Top Chicken Meat importers worldwide.

Top Chicken Exporters Analysis

Chicken is one of the most popular Halal Food Choice and one of the cheapest source of protein in Turkey (99% of the population is registered as Muslim). There are more than 400 exporters of chicken meat in Turkey. This number is still fastly growing as the surging demand for the chicken meat from foreign countries. In the mean time, Turkey does not import any poultry meat as the whole industry is self-sufficient. Another reason for that is the protective tariff for importing chicken meat is 65% tariff and 121% for chicken products under HTS 160232 to discourage the import of poultry meat from foreign competitors.

The leading chicken meat exporters in Turkey are OYTUN PAZARLAMA YUMURTA SANAYI DIS TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI and AKYEM ADANA YEM YAG BIODIZEL TARIM VE SANAYI TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI as per our statistical report. For more exporters' detail, please refer to the chart below or log into Trade Data Pro's database for full data access:

* The statistics is based on CIC Trade Data Pro 2021.4.1-2022.4.1 report

Top Import Countries of Chicken Meat of Turkey

Turkey exports chicken meat to more than 70 countries in the world while Iraq and Iran are the top two destinations as per our database. Although there is a predicted significant increase of about 24% of chicken meat exports in 2022, the intensifying economic crisis and supply chain issues of the neighboring country especially Iraq and Syria are always underlying problems. For more details on the major chicken meat export destinations, please refer to the statiscal data chart below or log into Trade Data Pro for more detailed data:

* Data source from USDA: Data accroding Poultry and Products Semi Annual- TURKEY

Which are the top chicken meat importers?

There are more than 200 importers of Turkey broilers meat in the world. As mentioned previsouly, most of the chicken meat importers are from Iraq and Iran. The two biggest importers of Turkey chicken meat are KHALED ALISSA and AL MAIYDA AL DAHABYA COMPANY GOLDEN TABLE as per our statistical report. For more details about worldwide importers, please refer to the chart below or log into Trade Data Pro's database for full data access:

* The statistics is based on CIC Trade Data Pro 2021.4.1-2022.4.1 report