THE CONCENTRATION ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN TURKEY: ARE THERE ANY CHANGES IN THE PERIOD 2010 - 2015?

Abstract

Despite the regional policies taken into agenda in all development plans in
Turkey, inter-regional imbalances could not be resolved. Dynamics of the region
must be examined in detail to resolve the inter-regional imbalance problems and
in the light of these data differing policies should be developed in each specific
region. Thus, detailed studies are needed on basis of regions and provinces. It is
critically important to establish the priorities in agro-food production for utilizing
the resources effectively and for competing against others like in Turkey whose
agro-food sector is relatively dominant both in terms of population and
employment. Therefore, it is aimed to determine the sectorial priorities in
agriculture for using geographic concentration coefficient analysis in agricultural
sub-sectors in Turkey.Inthiscontext, considering the Nomenclature of Territorial
Units for Statistics (NUTS) - Level 2 (26 regions), the weight of employment
structure of rural areas in Turkey will be analyzed for each region. Location
coefficients will be calculated for each sector by comparing the population that is
living in rural areas and working in agricultural, industrial and service sectors,with
sector values of Turkey’s rural areas. Later,agricultural sector will be analyzed on
the basis of sub-sector for Level 2 regions. These analyses will be done for both
2010 and 2015 to compare the differences during this period. The reason of these
diversities between mentioned time periods will be clarified by utilizing the
agricultural policy applications in Turkey.