AI Summary & Key Takeaways
AI InsightFamily size, farmland size, cooperative partnership, and printed material reading variables affected farmers’ use of agricultural credits positively; age of farmers, whether or not they receive free agricultural counseling service, and the number of agricultural training programs attended in the last year affected it negatively.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting farmers’ decisions on the use of agricultural credit in Mersin Province. The research data were collected from 239 farmers selected by multistage random sampling technique. The research data were evaluated by descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression analysis. In this study, it was determined that farmers’ some socioeconomic characteristics and information seeking behaviors affected their decisions on credit usage. Family size, farmland size, cooperative partnership, and printed material reading variables affected farmers’ use of agricultural credits positively; age of farmers, whether or not they receive free agricultural counseling service, and the number of agricultural training programs attended in the last year affected it negatively.
Özet
Bu araştırmanın amacı Mersin İli’nde çiftçilerin tarımsal kredi kullanım kararlarına etki eden faktörleri