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Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2005 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 8 | Page No.: 1489-1495
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2005.1489.1495
Farmers’ Attitudes Toward Crop Planning in Turkey
Sule Isin and Bulent Miran

Abstract: Agriculture is still one of the most important sectors in the Turkish economy. However, the sector has many problems. Farmers make production decisions in uncertain circumstances. It is accepted that crop planning is a tool to use farm resources effectively, but in Turkey farmers decide on crop selection and combination according to their past experiences and their intuitions. In this study farmers’ attitudes toward the guidance of experts on selection and combination of crop enterprises were analysed. One hundred and twenty farmers producing at least two crops were interviewed and the logit model was used in order to determine variables affecting acceptance of guidance on crop planning. The results indicate that farmers’ age, number of plots and regarding only price of crop in enterprise selection were negatively related to adoption of crop planning while education level of farmers, membership of agricultural cooperatives, difficulties experienced in crop selection, playing games of chance and land tenure other than ownership were positively related.

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Sule Isin and Bulent Miran, 2005. Farmers’ Attitudes Toward Crop Planning in Turkey. Journal of Applied Sciences, 5: 1489-1495.

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