Özet:

Isparta is one of the leading provinces in Turkey where cold stores are dense. The most important reason for this is that the geographical features of Isparta are suitable to grow several kinds of fruit such as apple, cherry and plum. Especially, apple is economically a suitable fruit to store in cold stores. Thus, apple cultivation in Isparta is very effective on becoming dense of cold stores in Isparta Province. And also, building new and modern cold stores in Isparta is effective on development of apple growth activities. It is known that storability of a fruit in cold stores for a long time increases the commercial value of it. Increasing value of a fruit especially raises the income of rural settler dealing with orcharding activities and therefore, cold stores become an effective factor for rural development. In this study the concept of cold store, development of cold storing in Turkey and the worldare basically emphasized. And then the development process of cold storing in Isparta Province from beginning of storing activity until now in Isparta Province, distribution of cold stores and effective factors on this distribution are analyzed. The available knowledge about the cold stores in Isparta Province are not satisfactory for researchers. Thus, with the help of this study, the concrete data about cold stores in Isparta are collected and also this study is a basic step for * Prof. Dr. Marmara Üniv. Fen Edebiyat [email protected] ** Arş. Gör. Süleyman Demirel Üniv. Sosyal Bilimler Enst. [email protected] studies about cold stores in Isparta. It is regarded that effect of cold stores on orcharding activities and rural development are next stage of this study.

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