Özet:

Scientific studies and investigations, involving large assessments for these industries and based on the spatial data, are very limited in Turkey despite the richness of Turkey in non-wood forest products (NWFP) and the increasing importance of industrial processes day by day. This situation needs to increase the researches about industry processing fort his group of products. For this purpose, it was considered this project that provides conclusion and recommendations for, determine general situation of the NWFP industry with its problems and expectations, identify the current situation and development, examine the structure of the company and the keepers, investigate the development in forest-industry relations from demand and supply, in the light of information to be obtain with field work. The scope of the study is NWFP industries. Application areas are defined as İzmir, Manisa, Aydın, Denizli and Muğla. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 105 companies in the region. With the evaluation of the general profile of the enterprises, it was seen that 89.5% of them were micro and small scale enterprises. It was determined that the enterprises examined with the study are generally at the beginning of the institutionalization process. In terms of product distribution, the most processed products were thyme (61), bay (55), sage (46) and rosemary (41), respectively. 53.3% of the enterprises are limited companies.

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