Proceedings: 1st International Conference on Food and Agricultural Economics: AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION STATUS OF ORANGE PRODUCER IN TURKEY

In this research, it is aimed to determine the agricultural organization status of orange producers in Turkey. For this purpose, Adana, Antalya, Mersin and Hatay which are located in the Mediterranean Region where orange production is concentrated in Turkey are included in the scope of the research. In the study, primary data acquired by the implementation of survey that was carried out by face to face interview method with 145 orange producer are used. The selection of a model establishment is determined according to stratified sampling method. Analysis and evaluation of micro data acquired in the level of producer is implemented on SPSS 18.0 program. Simple Descriptive Statistics is implemented as data analysis method in the research. According to the results obtained, ıt is determined that 71.8% of the total number of the producer enterprises is occupationally economically organized members of the professional and economic organizations, considering the membership status and distribution. 61.3% of the professional organization with the highest number of memberships was designated as the agriculture chamber. However, 79.7% of producers stated that they do not have any information about the services provided by professional or economic organizations, but they also stated that 81.1% of these producers did not benefit from the services provided. Besides, 74.6% of producers have stated that producers do not have a positive conviction that they can get their products together without a cooperative organization.