Sunflower Production and Agricultural Policies in Turkey
| Autor: | KONYALI, Sema |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Volume: 6, Issue: 4 11-19 Sosyal Bilimler Araştırma Dergisi |
| ISSN: | 2147-5237 |
| Popis: | Sunflower is one of the most important oilseed crops inTurkey and in the world. In the world, 11% of crude vegetable oil production issupplied by sunflower. In Turkey, 47% of the crude vegetable oil production issupplied by the sunflower. Cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annus L.) is one ofthe principal sources of edible oils produced by annual field crops inTurkey. The total production of sunflower is 1.670.716 tons inTurkey. The average yield of sunflower was 410 kg/da in 2016 (TSI, 2016),despite changes in the regions. Turkey which has 4% ratio of sunflower production isin the first ten countries in the world. However, Turkey sunflower productionis not sufficient even for domestic consumption. In Turkey, there is acontinuous increase in consumption of vegetable oil, which is the result ofrapid population growth and the increase in per capita consumption. However,due to the increasing population and consequently consumption per capita, theoil production cannot meet the consumption, and the increasing oil deficit iseliminated through imports. Turkey imports sunflower seeds, processed and rawsunflower oil for many years. Therefore, it is necessary to increase thesunflower production areas and yield. Sunflower planted areas and productionwas decreasing in the last years due to low prices mainly both in Turkey andthe world. In addition, increasing of the agricultural input prices ofsunflower is higher than sunflower intervention prices in Turkey. It is aproblem for producers because they are affecting negatively. The oilseedproduction is supported by the government with premium applications, inputsubsidies and tariff quota applications. Within the scope of agriculturalsubsidy, premium support was given to the oil sunflower the same as 0.3 TL/kgfor the years 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. It is necessary to increase the premiumsystem to provide its continuity. Therefore, sunflower production should bepromoted by applying more qualified and more consistent policies in Turkey. The purpose of this study is to examine the economicproblems in sunflower farming and to propose solutions by evaluating thestructure of the Vegetable Oil Industry and existing agricultural policies inTurkey. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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