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ECONOMY
AGRICULTURE
As Turkey is a very convenient country for growing and harvesting
agricultural products because of the geographic and climate
conditions are taken into account, Turkey is one of the rare
countries which is self sufficient in the production of agricultural
products and foodstuff. The growth increase in this sector is
accelerated rapidly after the application of the planned period
initiated in 1963 and the annual growth rate is calculated for long
terms is realized as average 3.3 percent.
The same rate is above the average annual population increase (2.2
percent) in the same period. The increase in the production was
greatly dependent on the increase of planting fields and the
increase in the number of the animals used before the planned
period. However, the increase after 1963is relevant with the
positive improvements in the agricultural technologies and inlet
usage and therefore the increase in the productivity. The
productivity increased in time relevant with the production
improvements as secondary production, improvement of production
method, usage of chemical fertilizers, agricultural drugs,
irrigation, artificial seeding, bait and the number of the breeding
animals and mechanization. The positive activities of the private
sector in the purchase of seeds after 1990 is an important factor
effecting the increase of the productivity of the vegetal products
Again in the same period major successions were obtained in the live
stock breeding field by usage of artificial intercourse increasing
productivity and in the contention with the animal diseases and
detrimental.
The infrastructure facilitation supplied by the government in the
field of irrigation and soil processing assisted the positive
improvement of agriculture in Turkey in recent years. As an example,
after the completion the Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP) in the
21st Century, it would be possible to irrigate 1.7 million hectares
of agricultural field of the 3.1 million hectares present in the
region. Therefore the variety of the agricultural products would
increase and according to this fact with the new technologies
installed to the developing agriculture oriented industry in the
region would increase the competition power of the regional economy
both in inner market and foreign market.
The portion of the agriculture sector value added tax in the gross
domestic production had decreased to 17 percent with current prices
in 1998, as this portion vas determined to be 26.1 percent in 1980.
The portion in the civil employment is about 45 percent. The
decrease of the portion of the agricultural sector in the gross
domestic production do not definitely mean that the productivity of
the agricultural sector is decreased. As a result of the
concentration on industrialization policies employed in Turkey, the
portion of the industrialization in the gross domestic production
had increased. Therefore parallel to the improvements in the
industry sector new and modern technologies are started to be used
in agriculture sector and new management understandings have
developed. The export of the agricultural products in 1998 had
exceeded five billion dollars.
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