Konya Seker is the story of a farmer’s cooperative participation’s transformation into an agricultural industrial giant in Turkey. Konya Seker Factory began production in 1954 and large shareholder of the company is Konya Beet Planters Cooperative, which has 46 thousand partners. Konya Seker, which increased its market shares with its new management structuring, provides direct employment for more than 10.000 people today. It makes 40 thousand farmers engage in contractual agriculture on approximately 1 million decares of land. Carrying out approximately 22 per cent of total sugar beet production in Turkey, Konya Seker is also the market leader in the potato market. Having 56 per cent of installed capacity of fuel ethanol capacity in Turkey, the first and the only liquid sugar facility in Turkey and Steam Pulp Drying Facility, whose peer in the world exists only in the USA, Konya Seker carries out its industrial activities in 11 campuses.
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