چكيده فارسي :
As is known by United Nations (UN) in 2014 was declared the year of family
farming all over the world. For many years, small-scale farms and family farming
holdings as a general trend, with negative affects took place on the agenda.
In fact, all countries with national agricultural policy, agricultural structure tried to
take measures to correct. Turkey was dominated by the same understanding.
Agriculture contribution to Turkish GDP is around 9% and 23% of the employment
in the country. For that reason agriculture is still important sector for socioeconomic
aspects. In Turkey there is 23 million ha of agricultural land and about 3
million farm holdings. Average farm size is 5.9 ha. As it can be seen the average of
farm holding size is very low.
In this study, current situation of farming family and small scale farm holdings
matters will be discussed for the advantages and disadvantages aspects in Turkish
agriculture.
