Turkish Food Prices Rise as Cyclone Ruins Fields, Milliyet Says
By Ercan Ersoy -
2012-01-09T06:59:00Z
A cyclone destroyed about 50 hectares of land in vegetable cultivation in southern Turkey, causing food prices to rise, Milliyet reported, citing local farmers and food traders.
Greenhouses were also destroyed in Kumluca region, in the southern province of Antalya, by the cyclone, the newspaper said. Some banana fields were damaged in Mersin province by strong winds, it said.
The newspaper didn’t say by how much food prices rose.
To contact the reporter on this story: Ercan Ersoy in Istanbul eersoy@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Benedikt Kammel at bkammel@bloomberg.net.
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