Birincil Sektör Olarak Tarımın Dış Ticaretteki Stratejik Rolü
The Strategic Role of Agriculture as a Primary Sector in Foreign Trade

Summary/Abstract: Agricultural production continues its activities today as it was in the past. Meeting the food needs of the increasing population, providing access to safe food and achieving efficient production are the primary goals of the agricultural sector. However, in order to achieve this goal, agricultural input costs need to be reduced. Therefore, it is a prerequisite for Turkey to update its agricultural policies and support activities in this regard. In particular, providing resource input to the industrial sector makes agricultural production strategic. It is necessary to raise the agricultural sector to the status of primary importance by the state and to improve agricultural support policies. Purpose of the study is emphasizing the importance of the agricultural sector in terms of foreign trade. In this direction, providing the sector with R&D and investment activities; It will help reduce the foreign dependency ratio by providing continuity and efficiency in production. In this regard, agricultural policies should be developed to increase production and the encourage farming profession. SWOT analysis was applied by specifying the weak/strong and opportunities/threats that Turkey has in the agricultural sector and foreign trade of agricultural production. As a result of the analysis, it was concluded that the agricultural sector should be developed and having a raw material source provides a great advantage in production and foreign trade.

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