KIZILOĞLU, Rüveyda Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi - Ziraat Fakültesi - Tarım Ekonomisi Bölümü, Turkey , KIZILASLAN, Halil Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi - Ziraat Fakültesi - Tarım Ekonomisi Bölümü, Turkey , DÖLEK, Gamze Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi - Ziraat Fakültesi - Tarım Ekonomisi Bölümü, Turkey

A Research on Determining Ecological and Industrial Egg Consumption Preferences: The Case of Tokat Central Province

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A large proportion of society has been questioning the crop and animal produc-tion models and they have put emphasis on healthy products and environment friendly production rather than industrial production. Ecological or organic farming models are expected to meet such expectations now and in the future. Therefore this study aimed to determine ecological egg consumption preferences of households in Tokat central province. The data of the study were collected through face to face interviews with 270 households determined by proportional sampling method. The data collected from the households re-vealed that 15.93 % of the households consumed ecological eggs, whereas 84.07 % con-sumed industrial eggs. It was determined that there was a statistical relation between eco-logical egg consumption of the households and the properties of the person interviewed such as gender, marital status, education level, job, wife‟s employment, wife‟s educational background and the frequency of egg purchase. As a result of the factor analysis, it was found out that the households‟ evaluation criteria when they bought eggs could be classi-fied into four categories: the physical properties, production properties, health, reliability and nutritional value and the market value of egg.

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Ecological Egg , Intensive Egg , Factor Analysis , Consumption , Tokat

Alınteri Journal Of Agricultural Science

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