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Although Turkey’s economic policies since the 1920s have put the main emphasis on industrial development, it has to be remembered that agriculture still plays a vital role in the Turkish economy, and is of some importance in the context of relations with the Community. The total area of the country is 77.9 million ha, of which 23 million ha, or 29.5 per cent, is counted as cultivated. Around 5.9 million ha, or some 25.5 per cent of the cultivated area is left fallow, but this still leaves Turkey with a very large agricultural area. Within the country, there is a wide variety of ecological conditions. As a result, Turkey is not just a major producer of Mediterranean crops (grapes, olives, tobacco, cotton and the like) but also of northern products, such as grain, orchard fruit, vegetables and meat. It is selfsufficient in most foodstuffs and normally has a substantial surplus of fruits, vegetables and industrial crops available for export.
This chapter is a revised version of the author’s paper, “Turkish Agriculture an the EEC”, published in Orient 26 (no 3, September 1985), pp. 360–375.
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V Beş Yillik Kalkinma Plani, 1985–1989 (Ankara, State Planning Organisation, 1984), p. 96: Summary of Agricultural Statistics, 1984 (Ankara, State Institute of Statistics, 1986), p. 2.
William Hale, The Political and Economic Development of Modern Turkey (London: Croom Helm, 1981) p. 130; other data from Economic Press Agency, Ankara.
V. Beş Yillik Kalkinma Plani, op.cit. , p. 8.
For more detailed statistical information, see Chapter 9, Tables 1 and 2.
Texts of the Association Agreement and Additional Protocol appear in Official Journal of the European Communities, Information and Notices, Vol. 16, no. C 113, 24 December 1983. Statistical data from Turkey-EEC Relations, 1963–77 (Ankara: Office of the Commission of the European Communities, 1977) p. 70.
Decision no. 1/80 of the Turkey-EEC Association Council of 19 September 1980, Arts 2–3.
For details see Mustafa Renksizbulut, Türkiye Avrupa Ekonomik Toplulugu Ortakliğinda Tarim Tavizleri, 1981 (Istanbul: Iktisadi Kalkinma Vakfi, n.d.).
Hans Gsänger, Turkey-European Community: National Development Policy and the Process ofRapprochement (Berlin: German Development Institute, 1979) p. 72.
Ilbay Levent, “La situation du commerce exterieur de la Tbrquie avec la CEE entre 1970–1979, et analyse des effects de l’enlargissement sur les produits clés exportes par la Turquie vers la CEE” (Luxemburg, Direction Statistique de la CEE, mimeo, n.d.) p. 28.
Ibid., p. 33.
Ibid., p. 29.
Ibid. , pp. 35–36. See also Gülten Kazgan, “Agricultural Exports to the EC” in Osman Okyar and Okan H. Aktan, eds., Economic Relations between Turkey and the EEC (Ankari: Hacettepe University, 1976), pp. 332–33.
Levent, op.cit. p. 39.
Summary of Agricultural Statistics, p. 3.
Ibid.
The Agricultural Situation in the Community, 1983 Report (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, 1982) p. 36.
Guidelines for European Agriculture: Memorandum to Complement the Commission’s Report of the Mandate of 30 May 1980, (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, mimeo, 1981), Annex 6.
Data for 1981, from ibid. , pp. 34, 38. Chapter 8.
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Hale, W. (1990). Turkish Agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy. In: Evin, A., Denton, G. (eds) Turkey and the European Community. Schriften des Deutschen Orient-Instituts. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-01422-5_9
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