From the President’s Pen
Dear Members, Dear Visitors,
2020 has been a special year for both our country and the whole world. The Covid19 pandemic, which started to make itself felt more and more rapidly with each passing day in our country as well as all over the world, continued to be the first agenda item of the whole world and all circles. Although we have witnessed positive pictures in the epidemic from time to time, we have all witnessed that there is no positive situation in the long term and the danger continues to increase. Although there are good news about the vaccine in this process, we all see that the vaccination process will be much longer than expected.
The pandemic issue seems to be the most important agenda item in 2021 or even 2022. In this process, the managers of each country are trying to keep both private and business life under control and keep commercial and economic activities alive in order to minimize the spread of the pandemic by taking the necessary measures under their own conditions. It is seen that these measures and restrictions put many sectors, especially tradesmen, in a very difficult situation.
In addition, it is a fact that the economic and political tensions experienced all over the world and in our geography, as well as the ongoing war and armed conflict environment, threaten all humanity, peace and tranquility. It is a fact known to all of us that the end of such actions and discourses as soon as possible will contribute to the rest of the world.
From the perspective of our country, with the rising exchange rates, the prices of many goods and services from food to technology have increased, especially the prices of food products have increased more than other products, and this has caused the inflation rates to move upwards.
Our Exchange, together with our members and producers, continued to contribute to the economic, commercial, educational and socio-cultural needs of our district, as always, in 2020, the year of the pandemic. It continues to take the necessary measures by producing projects for the development of agriculture and agricultural trade, quality production, marketing and trading activities and services in a transparent, effective and competitive environment.
We continue to walk confidently towards our goals in line with our vision and mission, with the strength we derive from you, our esteemed members, and the harmonious work and support of our Assembly and Board of Directors.
In order to announce the activities and services carried out by our Exchange to our esteemed stakeholders, all kinds of information about our Exchange are now much more accessible, with our fast, accessible, functional and easy-to-use website, as well as our work on the mobile application (Google Play and AppStore). easy access can be provided, all information can be accessed instantly.
As Polatlı Commodity Exchange, we continue our investments by producing new projects for the development of agricultural production and trade, both through our Exchange and our subsidiaries.
In this context;
- With the harvest period of 2018, the “Electronic Sales Hall“, which is fully equipped, fully automated, and multi-sales system using touch-based computers, has been put into operation and continues to serve.
In this context, with the “Electronic Sales Hall Remote Access Application System“, the software of which we developed and commissioned for testing purposes in 2020, Exchange Members who trade and trade agricultural products both in our country and in different countries and regions of the world can use their computers, tablets or mobile phones to access the “Electronic Sales Hall“. They will have the opportunity to trade grains with the 2021 harvest period by connecting to the”.
- Founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of the Polatlı Commodity Exchange, PTB Tarım Ürünleri Licensed Warehousing A.Ş. A Grain Silo with a capacity of 40 thousand tons was established in our district and the total capacity was increased to 60 thousand tons by increasing the capacity in 2017, and a corn drying unit with a capacity of 50 tons/hour was established to serve our regional producers and traders.
In addition, we continue our efforts to establish a new licensed warehouse facility through our company.
- Established in 2014 as a subsidiary of our Exchange in order to purchase and sell Electronic Product Notes (ELUS) issued by the depositors by licensed Warehouses in return for the product put in the silo, the authority in this field of Anadolu Intermediary Services Inc. is vested in Turkey Product Specialization Exchange A.Ş. 26.07.2019 It came to an end with its operation in.
However, in order for our Company to continue its services in accordance with the purpose of its establishment, all necessary conditions, including infrastructure, building, hardware, software and personnel, are provided and T.C. A written application was made on 06.11.2019 to obtain a certificate of authorization from the Ministry of Commerce and the Turkish Product Specialization Exchange Inc.
In this context, Borsa İstanbul, which is the agency of Turkish Product Specialization Exchange Inc. (TÜRİB), continues to provide multi-faceted services to producers, traders, industrialists and all stakeholders through Anadolu Brokerage Services Corporation.
- Borsa Polatlı Laboratory Services A.Ş., which was established as a subsidiary of Borsa İstanbul in 2018 in order to make the quality and classification of the product to be delivered, before the product is delivered to the Licensed Warehouses, T.C. With the “Reference Authorized Classifier” license valid throughout the country, obtained from the Ministry of Commerce, the Licensed Warehouse Facility of our Stock Exchange located in Polatlı/Center and Mucur/Kırşehir, Keşan/Edirne and Sarıkaya/Yozgat affiliated to TMO-TOBB Tarım Ürünleri Licensed Warehousing A.Ş. Our company, which provides “Authorized Classifier Service” in Licensed Warehouse Branch Facilities, increased the number of branches to 7 by including Çorum/Center, Kırıkkale/Keskin and Kırklareli/Babaeski Licensed Warehouse Branch Facilities, which are also affiliated to TMO-TOBB Lidaş, in its service area in 2020.
In addition, in order to provide more effective and faster service to our members, producers and other stakeholders, efforts to update and strengthen our electronic infrastructure and data processing network continued with the new arrangements made within the Exchange units within the framework of the needs and expectations of the day.
Our projects for 2021 are;
- To provide training to our district farmers by establishing a “Farmer Training Center” in the Polatlı Agricultural Enterprise Directorate in cooperation with Ankara University, Selçuk University and the General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises.
- To build a “Full Automation Dry Onion Warehouse” within the working area of our Exchange and to offer it to our farmers.
In this context, we continue our work in the spirit of unity and solidarity with the excitement and energy of the first day in order to carry our Exchange to a higher level with a great union of forces, to provide more effective and faster service to our stakeholders in the sector, and to contribute much more to our district and our country in every field.
I would like to thank all our members, producers and stakeholders, and present my respects with the wish to live happy, peaceful, healthy and successful days in peace.
Yahya TOPLU
Chairman of the Board
