Çaykur
| Çay İşletmeleri Genel Müdürlüğü (Çaykur)
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| legal form | State-owned company with its own legal personality |
| founding | 1983 |
| Seat | Rize , Turkey |
| Branch | Processed & Packaged Goods |
| Website | www.caykur.gov.tr |
Çaykur ( Çay İşletmeleri Genel Müdürlüğü , German: General Directorate for Tea Companies ) is a Turkish state company and the largest tea producer in Turkey . The company is based in the city of Rize on the Black Sea . İmdat Sütlüoğlu is the general director of Çaykur . In addition, Çaykur is a sponsor of the Rizespor soccer team .
In 2010 Çaykur had 13,142 employees and was the 32nd largest company in Turkey. In 2012, Çaykur was in 53rd position and in 9th position in terms of the number of employees.
history
After the First World War there was an economic and social crisis in the Rize region with high unemployment. They wanted to create jobs in order to stop migration from the region and to solve the problems associated with it. In order to strengthen the Rize and Borçka regions economically, the Turkish National Assembly decided to promote the agricultural cultivation of tea, nuts and citrus fruits. The agricultural engineer Zihni Derin was sent to the region to set up research gardens and nurseries. Derin imported seeds from Georgia and sold seedlings to farmers. In 1941 the first tea factory was opened in Rize.
From 1963 the domestic Turkish demand for tea could be covered by own production, in 1971 the predecessor organization Çay Kurumu Genel Müdürlüğü was created with Law No. 1497. This state-owned company, which has its own legal personality, started work two years later in Rize. On October 10, 1983, the state-owned company Çaykur was founded in its current form as a company with its own legal personality. The name of the corporate form was initially Kamu İktisadi Kuruluşu ("Public Economic Enterprise") and since 1994 İktisadi Devlet Teşekkülü ("Economic State Enterprise"). From 1996 to 1999 it was subordinate to the Prime Minister's Office of Turkey , later a few months later to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Trade, then again to the Office of the Prime Minister and since November 2002 to the Ministry of Agriculture.
The tea
Çaykur tea comes from the growing areas around the town of Rize on the Turkish Black Sea coast.
Çaykur is planning the complete conversion from tea cultivation and production to organic production according to European standards. In the model region Hemşin , most of the smallholders have already converted their production to organic farming or are in the conversion phase. Çaykur already supports the organic farmers in the conversion phase. An expansion of the organic cultivation areas is planned for 2014.
Çaykur tea is controlled and certified by the Swiss Institute for Market Ecology (IMO) , among others .
The Çaykur company does not operate its own tea plantations to this day. Over 207,000 independent tea producers from the region, mostly small and family businesses, supply Çaykur production. The state-owned company guarantees fixed purchase prices and is the largest employer in the region.
At the beginning of 2014, Çaykur employed around 10,670 people and annually produces 130,700 tons of dried tea in 46 tea factories, which is cultivated on a total of 75,800 hectares and generates a turnover of 150 billion Turkish Lira . The company is the largest tea producer in Turkey.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.sondakika.com
- ↑ www.iyiderehaber.com ( Memento from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Rethinking the Black Sea deutsch-tuerkische-nachrichten.de
- ↑ ÇAYKUR 2013 Yılında Yüzde 10 Büyüm Hedefliyor , Haberler, August 25, 2013
- ↑ Organic tea from the Black Sea / Turkish tea giant presents new products at BioFach focus.de