Abstract:

The subject and purpose of this study is to highlight the importance of industrial planning that is neglected for increasing agricultural production in Turkey. So far, all governments have aimed to meet our country’s food needs by themselves. At the time of Ataturk, the economy, the absence and the difficulties in agriculture were heavy. In 1923 a road map for agricultural production was drawn with decisions taken at the İzmir Economic Congress. In the period 1938-1950, the Law on Landing of the Farmers was adopted. In the period 1950-1960, the Liberal began to increase agricultural production, thanks to the import of tractors under the Marshall Assistance. During the 1960-1980 planned development period, import residential industrialization was translated on the basis of five-year planning in agricultural production. In agriculture, self-sufficiency has been greatly sought to be achieved. In 1980, the famous 24 January Liberal Stability Decisions passed to the free market order and the export-based growth policies began to be implemented in the agricultural sector. After that, five years of development plans were made, but agriculture was formally planned. As a result of the cessation of agriculture in the market, imports have increased, agricultural public enterprises have been privatized and domestic producers have not been protected from external competition. Although Turkey has productive land and entrepreneurial farmers, it has become a foreign-dependent and weak agricultural country. The way to solve this macroeconomic problem is to implement an effective agricultural planning strategy. In the context of this strategy, the agricultural sector should be incentivated to increase productivity, the import tendency should be reduced, and the agricultural public enterprises of vital imports should be restructed. In this way, domestic production and cheap consumption will increase while agricultural imports will also be reduced.

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