Parametric and non-parametric methods are used for practicing statistical data on agriculture. Sampling distribution, sample size and sampling methods, hypothesis tests, analysis of variance, chi-square analysis, Mann-Whitney analysis, Kruskall Wallis analysis and idices are the main subjects. Computer applications are made with farm management and agricultural economics data.

 

 

The Concept of Price, Supply And Demand, Determination of Price By Supply And Demand, Elasticity of Demand And Supply, The Theories of Price And The Analysis of Equilibrium, Price Analysis of Production Factors, The Analysis of Annual Price Fluctuations, The Analysis of Seasonal Price Fluctuations, Price Analysis In Foreign Trade, Intervention on Agriculture and Price Policy Analysis.

 

 

 

Scope of mathematical economics, basic terms, matrices, derivative and its use in economics, exponential functions and its use in economics, multi variable functions and its use in economics, integral and its use in economics.

 

 

Farming system research is an approach that is being used to meet a better standard of living for small-scale farmers. This lecture synthesis the FSRM used in practice by producers with some case studies. We try to describe the characteristics and objectives of FSRM, then present in selecting target, research areas, problem identification, research design, on farm research, extension of research results and implementation.

 

 

Linear programming is used for obtaining optimum farm plans. The purpose of the lecture is to develop the LP modeling skill of the students. Modeling principles, efficient and accurate evaluating the optimum plan results, sensitivity analysis and parametric analysis are discussed via real world farm planning problems. The models are solved by the software WinQSB.

 

 

 

Fundamentals of operations research methods such as linear programming, integer programming, transportation, assignment, queuing theory, Markov chains, inventory theory, CPM and PERT techniques and their applications to agriculture with computer using.

 

Participatory approaches and it’s history; Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA); definition and principles; methods used in PRA; institutionalizations and scaling-up of PRA; approaches and methods used in extension; approaches and methods used in rural development; approaches and methods used agricultural policy; participatory approaches used in researches- in animal and crop production (participatory plant breeding etc.) and in agricultural economics- presentation of students’ studies and evaluation.

 

 

Generation and utilization of agricultural innovations have key role on agricultural development and international competition. Especially, the improvements on globalization, sustainable development have increased the importance of innovation systems’ effectiveness. The different actors from different sectors and their relations will be discussed in innovation systems. The bottlenecks of innovation systems and applications in different countries those have effectively running innovation systems and social benefits of innovation systems will be examined in the lecture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lecture of agricultural macro planning consists of definitions of agricultural planning, history of agricultural macro planning, green revolution and development of technology in the world, types of planning, application of macro planning, techniques of plan preparation, demand projection of agricultural products, designating aims of agricultural planning approach, application of agricultural macro planning in Turkey, etc.

 

The lecture on farm management, marketing and co-operative consists of 3 chapters. In first section history of farm management is given extension approach in farm management, database of extension on farm management, types of extension on farm management and their applications on farms, computer use in extension on farm. In section 2 extension on agricultural marketing, concepts and definitions of extensions on agricultural marketing, approach of extension on marketing. In section 3 definitions, concepts of extension on agricultural co-operatives and applications.

 

 

The Relationships between Water and Development, Water Resources in The World and Turkey, Problems Related to Water Resources, Economic Problems on Improvement and Usage of Water Resources, Water Resources Management, Economic Analysis of Irrigation Methods, Economics of Water-Environment Relations.

 

The Concept of International Trade, Developments In World Trade, Foreign Trade Structure of Turkey , Classification Systems of Foreign Trade and Concept of Agricultural Products, World Trade of Agricultural Products And The Share of Turkish Trade.

The Concept of Market In Agricultural Trade, International Trade Policies, International Agricultural Trade Policies, International Economic and Fiscal Organization, Globalizations and Agriculture, Economic Integrations and Agriculture, Relationship of Turkey With International Economic and Fiscal Organization and Agriculture.

Trade Regime of Turkey, Trade Policies and Measures In Turkey, Concept of Free Zone, Free Zones In Turkey, Export Strategy of Turkey and Agricultural Products, Multinational Firms and Agricultural Sector.

 

 

Analysis of aggregate economic fluctuations and stabilization policy; Monetary and fiscal policy issues, and their effects on Agricultural sector. Development of a standard macroeconomic model in the context of specific applications.

 

The principles on construction and interpretation of integer programming, zore-one programming, goal programming, and parametric programming models are discussed. WinQSB is used for solving the problems

 

 

Data from farm management and marketing are evaluated by cluster method, discriminant analysis, factor analysis, canonic correlation, multidimensional scaling and reliability analysis. Common statistical packages are used for practicing the methods with sample data sets.