TY  - JOUR
T1  - Awareness of medical and aromatic plants in the western black sea region
AU  - Sakinoğlu Oruç, Fatma Çiğdem
AU  - Erturan, İlkay Ejder
AU  - Oruç, Deniz
AU  - Oruç, Sadık Hasan
PY  - 2019
DA  - March
Y2  - 2018
DO  - 10.31015/jaefs.2019.1.1
JF  - International Journal of Agriculture Environment and Food Sciences
JO  - int. j. agric. environ. food sci.
PB  - Gültekin ÖZDEMİR
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2618-5946
SP  - 1
EP  - 4
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - In our research, the level of awareness about medicinal and aromatic plants in different professions groups (farmers, civilservants, workers, retired, students and unemployed) and education levels were examined through direct interviews inWestern Black Sea Region (Düzce, Sakarya, Zonguldak, Bartın). By using the Neyman method, 77 people wereinvestigated, based on the Likert scale to measure awareness levels, and the results were evaluated by SPSS method.As a result of our research, 24.7% of them prefer medicinal and aromatic plants when they are sick, while 81.8% thinkthat medicinal and aromatic plants are organic. 66.2 %agree that organic certification is required for medicinal andaromatic plants. 63.6% of inadequate education is remarkable when the problems are expressed. At the rate of 5.2% is TVand 15.6% is for newspapers are used for information acquisition. According to the study, it was concluded that the levelof awareness of the medicinal and aromatic plants in the Western Black Sea region is not sufficient, and starting fromschool programs, it is necessary to raise awareness of the public by means of non-formal education, magazines andcourses besides TV and newspaper.
KW  - Western Black Sea Region
KW  - Medicinal and aromatic plants
KW  - Awareness
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.31015/jaefs.2019.1.1
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/553324
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