Abstract:

Although the multifaceted agricultural policies implemented by developing countries have been supported by international organizations for a long time, production and productivity increases that have emerged along with the technological developments have changed this perspective. Developing countries have been directed to the production of high value-added products from traditional agricultural products through neo-liberal policies run by supranational organizations. Turkey which adopted the neo-liberal policies in the early 1980s, changed its agricultural policies through the pressures of supranational institutions as well. As a result of those policies, an external-dependent structure was formed for agricultural products while the share of agricultural products in exports decreased and their share in imports increased through the deterioration in production. This study reveals the effects of neo-liberal policies on the foreign trade of agricultural products and the structural transformation that emerged in the sector's foreign trade, under the titles of processed, unprocessed products and agricultural raw materials, using different classifications of goods.

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