DETERMINATION OF SATISFACTION LEVEL OF FARMERS FROM AGRICULTURAL CREDIT COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES: A CASES OF ÇELTIKÇI DISTRICT OF BURDUR

Year 2019, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 15 - 21, 18.06.2019

Ali Ar Mevlüt Gül

Abstract

Agricultural cooperatives provide benefits to member farmers on both input and output issues. There are many numbers of agricultural cooperatives and the numbers of members in Turkey. However, there are debates on their effectiveness. This study was aimed at measuring the level of satisfaction of the members of Agricultural Credit Cooperative in the Çeltikçi district of Burdur province. The second aim of the study was determined the problems of the members about the cooperative services, and determine the problems affecting the use of the products of the cooperative. Finally, it was determined the recommendations of the members to increase the use of the cooperative products. The data used in the research belonged to 2013. Data were obtained from 132 farmers whom a member of the Agricultural Credit Cooperative with surveyed. It was determined that the services provided by the agricultural credit cooperative not be satisfied with the diesel, insurance, quality of feed, feed price, feed credit, feed variety. However, members were generally satisfied with the quality and variety of the products. In order to increase the efficiency of cooperative use, the interest rates should be lowered, the input prices should be brought to the appropriate level, and information should be provided to the members of the cooperatives. It is suggested that interest policy which is applied to the loans offered to members of the cooperative in the course of research should be restructured in the quality of its products and product sales policies. By the information obtained, it can be stated that the cooperative has moved away from its institutional aims and has become a profit-oriented institution from the point of view, and has not observed the satisfaction and benefits of its members adequately. In order to be more useful to the members, the cooperative should be provided with the services of its members by the aims of the establishment, and this should be put into the above mentioned recommended practices.

Keywords

Agricultural credit cooperatives, satisfaction, farmer, Burdur, Turkey

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