EVALUATION OF LAND TENURE FORMS AND SIZE OF AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS IN TURKEY USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) TECHNOLOGIES

Agriculture sector plays strategic roles in the process of economic development because agriculture is the basic source for food supply of all countries in the world. While population increase day by day, global resources like oil, fresh water, topsoil and also agricultural products decline so land management is very important for heritage of sustainable planet. The legal expression of farmlands among with operator is land tenure which is a significant component in agricultural land use. Determination of land tenure and the farm size is important for a better understanding of the structure of the agricultural land. Geographical Information Systems emerge that can expressed such as situation. Geographic and non-geographic attributes of spatial datasets enable them to be integrated and analyzed in GIS applications through visualization and analysis tools. The purpose of this paper is evaluate to land tenure and the farm size in provinces of Turkey using GIS. The land operated by size, number, rented land, share basis, their own land of agricultural holdings and land tenure forms analyzed. It is detected the differences among provinces from analyzed results taking everything into account. The results obtained from the study are discussed and suggestions are made.