International Conference on Eurasian Economies
9-11 September 2015 – Kazan, RUSSIA
Paper detail
Paper ID : 1444
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Sectoral Analyses
Presenter: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sibel Tan
Session : 4B Tarım Ekonomisi
Agricultural Support Policies in Turkey
Türkiye’de Tarımsal Destekleme Politikaları
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sibel Tan (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Türkiye)
- Dr. Mehmet Hasdemir (Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Türkiye)
- Dr. Bengü Everest (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Türkiye)
Abstract
Agriculture is the leading strategic sector of Turkey as it was in entire world. Despite this strategic significance, risks and uncertainties because of the dependency on natural conditions turn agriculture into a disadvantaged sector. Just because of those disadvantages, agriculture is protected with various support policies throughout the world. Agricultural policies of Turkey have initiated with institutionalization policies of the Republican period and progressed through product supports, input supports and low-interest credit implementations of the planned period. These policies experienced serious reforms at the beginning of 2000s. Within the scope of Agricultural Reforms Implementation Project (ARIP), agricultural supports were tried to be gathered under a single roof and Direct Income Support (DIS) implementations have started. The DIS implementations lasted for 8 years and terminated in 2008. Current agricultural policy tools are implemented as area-based supports, subsidiary payments, rural development and agricultural insurance supports. The budget allocated to agriculture and the share of agricultural supports in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Turkey did not exhibit much change in years. Considering the policies and supports provided in developed countries and especially in European Union (EU) countries, it is recommended for Turkey that share of agricultural supports in total budget should be increased to levels in those countries.
JEL codes: O25
Tan, Sibel, Hasdemir, Mehmet, Everest, Bengü (2015). "Agricultural Support Policies in Turkey" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2015, pp.266-270, Kazan, RUSSIA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C06.01444
