Can We Recognize MTN Seed?
MTN SEED is a domestic seed company founded by Mehmet Tan in 1984. The company has been managed by his sons Can TAN and Ata TAN since 2004.
Our company, which has been striving to meet the onion seed needs of our farmers since the day it was founded, continues to exist in international markets with its foreign sales that it started in 2007.
Can you talk about the production capacity of your company, your variety preferences and the criteria you pay attention to while breeding?
MTN Seed, which has an annual production capacity of 200 tons, makes its sales with approximately 30 registered varieties. MTN TOHUM, which tries to direct the variety preferences and breeding in line with customer demands, is the leading company in domestic hybrid onion seeds. Qualities such as earliness, resistance to diseases, storage life, thin wrist structure, bark color are the issues that our R&D department emphasizes sensitively in breeding new varieties.
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The climate and location of the region we are in gives us an advantage in terms of healthy and sustainable production.
We have a high competitive power in foreign markets in standard onion seeds, and we aim to gain a share in the hybrid onion seed market by using these advantages.
How is the competitiveness of MTN Seed in the world in Onion Seed breeding?
Exporting to 26 countries outside of Turkey, MTN Tohum mainly competes in the standard onion seed market.
According to TUIK data for 2020, we are proud of owning 51% of onion seed exports from Turkey.
MTN SEED also produces onion seeds on a contractual basis for major vegetable seed companies globally.