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 inTurkey, inter-regional imbalances could not be resolved. Dynamics of the regionmust be examined in detail to resolve the inter-regional imbalance problems andin the light of these data differing policies should be developed in each specificregion. Thus, detailed studies are needed on basis of regions and provinces. It iscritically important to establish the priorities in agro-food production for utilizingthe resources effectively and for competing against others like in Turkey whoseagro-food sector is relatively dominant both in terms of population andemployment. Therefore, it is aimed to determine the sectorial priorities inagriculture for using geographic concentration coefficient analysis in agriculturalsub-sectors in Turkey.Inthiscontext, considering the Nomenclature of TerritorialUnits for Statistics (NUTS) - Level 2 (26 regions), the weight of employmentstructure of rural areas in Turkey will be analyzed for each region. Locationcoefficients will be calculated for each sector by comparing the population that isliving in rural areas and working in agricultural, industrial and service sectors,withsector values of Turkey’s rural areas. Later,agricultural sector will be analyzed onthe basis of sub-sector for Level 2 regions. These analyses will be done for both2010 and 2015 to compare the differences during this period. The reason of thesediversities between mentioned time periods will be clarified by utilizing theagricultural policy applications in Turkey.