A research on agricultural land market in Turkey

Abstract

The main structural problems related to agricultural enterprises in Turkey are the small scale of the enterprises, the fragmented and multi-shareholding of the enterprise land. However, insufficiencies in infrastructure investments that provide direct access to the parcel and irrigation canal, the increase in the misuse of agricultural lands, constantly shrinking and fragmented lands, migration and land abandonments threaten land management and food security. To solve these problems and create a sustainable land market, Soil Conservation and Land Use Law numbered 5403 was issued in 2005, is of great importance. In this study, the socio-economic characteristics of the farmers who made agricultural land purchases and sales (230 farmers) in September, October and November of 2019 in Konya province and the structural developments after the new land law were examined, and the factors affecting their perspectives on the policies applied on land markets were determined by “Multinominal Logistic Regression” analysis. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that as the age of the farmers selling land increased, their views on the new land law were negatively affected, and the increase in the number of shares of the sellers who had more than one share positively affected their views on the new land law.