The Examination of Agricultural Organization Legislation and Policies in Turkey: The Case Study of Agricultural Cooperatives

Agricultural sector keeps its importance regularly due to its functions such as meeting the needs of people in need of food, providing raw materials to industrial sector, and creating employment. It deals with various problems when it carries out these functions. For example, higher input prices and lower sale prices of the products are the problems discussed frequently. In addition, inefficient agricultural organizations emerge another important problem encountered. Agricultural sector provides different solutions to these and similar identified problems and strengthening of agricultural organizations is among these solutions. As a result, the failure of agricultural organizations emerges as a problem confronted and it also emphasizes the importance of strong agricultural organizations to solve other problems. In many studies on agricultural organizations in Turkey, the failure of agricultural organizations had been examined and the reasons for the failure had been determined. “Problems stemming from legislation" had been identified as common outcome. Therefore, in this study, the problems of agricultural organizations arising from legislation and their agricultural organization policies are examined and relevant solutions are presented.