Özet:

Today, agricultural credit cooperatives, which are becoming a common institution across the country, make significant contribution to the development of the agricultural sector in terms of providing agricultural income and credit to farmers and evaluating the products produced by farmers. The institution’s ability to provide funding with foreign resources in addition to its own resources and the ability to credit these resources in accordance with its own legislation, its functioning and its contribution to the sector have been very effective in producing positive results. The institution, which is increasing financial strength every year and serves the public interest, is fully able to act in its own initiative in terms of the assessment of the financial pen and the payment of foreign-source loans, and is able to provide resources in accordance with the free market conditions, because it is not directly linked and related to any government institution. Agricultural credit cooperatives have a separate and original position from many institutions in the public sector in this regard. The aim of this study is to evaluate the financial structure of agricultural credit cooperatives in Turkey with data from 2011-2018 and develop alternative solutions to the difficulties encountered in the process.