A study on determining the factors affecting on the farmers decision to process the milk produced by farmers in Tekirdag province.

The purpose of the study was to determine the factors

that are effective on the decisions of milk production enterprises to make

production within the market by keeping the milk within their body or

delivering the milk to dairies in the province of Tekirdağ. The data of the

study was collected using 89 questionnaires conducted in the province of

Tekirdağ. In this context, while the producers who make production for the

market by delivering their milk to dairies were coded as 1, those who make

production for their domestic needs were coded as 0. SPSS package program was

used to identify factors having an effect on the dependent variable with logit

regression model. In consequence of the study,

while there was a positive relation between the age, whether there is state

guarantee or not, total number of cross and culture breeding animals,

production type, and whether artificial insemination support is benefitted or

not in the decisions of milk producers regarding evaluation of the milk, there

was a negative relation between the variables regarding the fact that the

producer makes production other than stockbreeding, the distance enterprise is

far from the district and number of family members working in the enterprise. When all these results are

taken into consideration, the sector should be made appealing if a

stockbreeding sector that makes production for the market is required. In order

to achieve this purpose it is necessary to increase the income gained from

stockbreeding. In this context, in order to increase the milk efficiency by

working with stocks having a high level of fertileness instead of those with a

low level of fertileness and deliver the milk produced by the producer to the

market exclusively, it is thought that increasing the number of milk gathering

centers available in villages and establishing a profitable and specialized

stockbreeding sector will be important in terms of preventing the rural-urban

migration and additionally, increasing the life quality of people living in

rural areas.

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