The Use of Statistics in the Agricultural Sector in the Province of Kutahya

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Title

The Use of Statistics in the Agricultural Sector in the Province of Kutahya

Author

TIRYAKI, Suleyman
KURT, Murat
ALP, Kenan
KAHRAMAN, Aydin

Abstract

Turkey has a structure that is growing and developing with each passing day in the agricultural sector. Because consciousness occurred that agriculture cannot be done with daily approaches, but with strategic planning and approaches. Turkey is in the 7th range the list of world agricultural economies and the 1st in Europe range in terms of the size of the agricultural economy. Kütahya is one of the cities that affect the results significantly. Kütahya has been one of the major centers in the agricultural field from past to present. The world's first stock exchange was established in the town of Çavdarhisar that has 4900 hectares of agricultural area. The reason for this is the period between 0 and 1000, agricultural and livestock is being done widely in this area. A questionnaire is prepared to determine whether the statistics, which is very important nowadays, is used enough or not in Kütahya. The questionnaire sent to 35 companies via fax, e-mail and personally, by who are working in agricultural sector. 22 of these companies filled out our questionnaire. The statistics using level and R&D activities were asked to the companies with 8 items in this questionnaire. The obtained data were entered to the packaged software and then analyzed with these data. The results of this analysis are interpreted. The companies believe that the use of statistics is important for developing but important part of the companies has not recorded the statistics of their companies till now. Also they do not follow the TÜİK istatistics published by Ministry of Agriculture. Keywords: Statistics, Research & Development (R&D), Agriculture.

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PeerReviewed

Identifier

ISSN 2303-4564

Publisher

International Burch University

Date

2013-05-10

Extent

1670

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