Biography
(Dr. Mithat Direk from Selçuk University, Konya-Türkiye)
Mithat Direk ORCID number (0000-0002-7232-9089)
Official mail: mdirek@selcuk.edu.tr; mithatdirek@gmail.com
Official link in his university : https://selcuk.edu.tr/Person/Detail/mdirek

Dr. Direk received B.S. degree from Çukurova University in Adana, Türkiye. He got his MSc. and PhD. degrees in Agricultural Economy Department from the University of Çukurova in Adana, Türkiye also. He was the founding faculty member of the Department of Agricultural Economy, from the Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, in Türkiye. He had worked Çukurova, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, which was head of department of agricultural economics, Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye. He works in Selçuk University since 1997.
He worked as the director of the Taşkent Vocational Scholl at 6 years, in Taşkent, Konya, Türkiye. He was also a Visiting Professor one month at Tanta University, Egypt, 4 months North Dakota State University, USA, and he is visiting many of countries for research and technical subjects. He worked on international relationships, organizing conferences, supervising projects throughout the world. He was the author of the book entitled “Agriculture History” published in 2012 and second edition in 2014, which is a new concept in agriculture sector. He is the editor of the some book entitled conferences proceeding. These proceeding books brought new dimensions to agricultural sector and agro food industry. His current research interests include sustainable agriculture and food marketing. His interest of taking pictures as like amateur photographer and he was opened exhibition “Seasons in Taşkent” at 2001. He is as a writer of a number of books and more than 200 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He recently writes some popular articles in newspaper daily and monthly journal in Türkiye. He is also an organizer as well as chair series of International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Environment performed six times in different countries. He is an expert especially in agricultural marketing, organization, and cooperatives.