The herbal production facility, which will sell herbal medicine and raw materials from Turkey to the world, was established in Bodrum. The factory belonging to İmmunat Herbal İlaç AŞ, which started production with an investment of 10 million TL, will bring more than 200 endemic plants to the pharmaceutical industry.
Turkey, which is among the few countries in the world in terms of plant richness, will sell herbal medicines and raw materials to the world with the newly established factory.
Stating that their goal is to sell Anatolian plants that are about to disappear to global markets, İmmunat Aş Chairman Adnan Akar said, “Our factory is among the most advanced technologies in the world in this field. We will produce plant extracts worth 20 million dollars annually, which are needed by the cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food industries. More “In the first month, we received orders 5 times our annual production.”
3rd facility will be established
“We will establish our 3rd facility in the coming months with an additional investment of 40 million TL. We had to reject the purchase request from 20 countries. Our goal is to sell our own plants, our own geography, by processing and branding, to 30 countries of the world with the commissioning of the new facility. In our first year, 12 million dollars.” “We aim for export,” he said.
Employment for 100 people, additional income for 1000 farmers
Immunat company, which has been operating in Bodrum for about 10 years, has started production at full capacity in its second production facility, which produces liquid extracts from plants, flowers, spices and roots as food supplements. Explaining that the factory, established in a closed area of 2 thousand square meters, closed a large gap in Turkey, Akar said, “We provided direct employment to 100 people with this facility.”
“If we include the support we provide to farmers, we have opened an indirect source of income for 1000 people. Plants grown in Turkey for centuries were turned into food supplements abroad and sold back to us for high prices. We will get rid of foreign dependency. Turkey has always exported dried plants and raw materials instead of exporting processed herbal products. “We will now be able to sell high value-added products to the world,” he said.
“Agriculture-based industry will develop and we will produce national medicine”
Stating that the factory is an important move in the agriculture-based industry in Turkey, Akar said, “We made an investment in the critical national pharmaceutical category. We will produce food supplements containing active ingredients close to the medicine. We produced turmeric liquid extract for the first time in the world. From olive leaves to grape seeds, from thyme to donuts.” “We produce the extracts of many plants, including herbs, as processed products.”
500 tons per year
“We currently have the capacity to process 500 tons of plants annually. By distributing our local seeds to our villagers, we will grow our own plants with ecological agriculture and get rid of foreign dependency with projects that will support agriculture in our own countryside.”
“We will now offer these products, which we imported until yesterday, to the sector with local production. I think it will make a huge difference in exports. Turkey is a very advantageous country with its soil, air, water and sea. Agriculture should not be thought of only with materials such as wheat and pulses. Agriculture-based industry is on the rise all over the world.” “Demand for plant extracts is increasing day by day,” he said.
Source: internethaber.com