Sectoral Analysis I: Agricultural Sector
What is the wider definition of agriculture?
As a concept, agriculture is a much wider term including but not limited to the production of crops, fruits, fish, livestock and even forestry products. A narrow explanation of the term may suggest only the occupations relating to growing plants, breeding animals and catching fish, etc. But a wider explanation must include, in addition to those occupancies, first-level processing of agricultural products, every aspect of forestry and silviculture, storage and stowing.
What are the key characteristics of agriculture?
Agricultural production (still) relies mainly on climate conditions
For many types of agricultural products, income and price elasticities of demand are considerably lower.
Agricultural production has its own characteristics of supply.
Agricultural goods production is geographically concentrated.
Agricultural production is bulky.
The law of diminishing returns is an extremely important issue for agricultural production, particularly in conventional production.
Which type of cost is redeced because of the bulk production of agricultural products?
Average total cost
What is the level of production in agriculture largely depends on?
The level of production in agriculture largely depends on the quality and the quantity of total arable land in a country.
What limits a country’s productive capacity as well as the value of agricultural products?
Weather conditions
What leads to increasing investments in the agricultural sector?
make use of more land by irrigating the soil
Which of the following has led to a decline in crop production that have been on an upward trend since the 1960s?
Oil crises in 1970s
Which one play a key role in meeting domestic food demand and supplying the food industry despite their lower value generation compare to other products?
Pulses
What is the reason that fruits production has become an important part of Turkish agriculture?
Steadily increasing production level
'It is understood from the Table: Selected Spice Production in Turkey, 2002; 2016-2018 that there is a substantial factor shift towards cayenne pepper production followed by fennel production, yet in the long-term there are also significant decreases in aniseed and cumin production.'
Looking at the statement above how one can interpret the changes in the spice production?
A structural change in spice production
What is the highest production in ovary seeds with shell walls?
Hazelnuts
What is the reason behind that Spain and the Netherlands are the top players in vegetable area with regards to value exports?
their high-quality production in fruits and vegetables
- It is a plant of which leaves, or its other parts are used mainly to produce goods to be smoked, sucked, chewed or snuffed and these products often contain the highly addictive psychoactive ingredient.
- This type of products may be considered to be of lower-price elasticity of demand.
- The global production level of this product according to FAO is about 7 million tonnes, and Turkey’s share of it is about 4%.
Which of the following products has the features listed above?
Tobacco
According to do World Bank data which one is not included in livestock production of Turkey?
Cobweb
In Turkey where is 91% of all hunting fishing obtained from?
Marine capture
‘In Turkey, forest areas as a percentage of the total land area went from 13% in 1990 to just above 15% in 2016 whereas at the same time period the world average for the same ratio was practically 30%.’
Which of the following is the main reason for the difference between Turkey and the world?
underdeveloped forestry sector
Which one the following is the result of decreasing arable land per producer, and increasing producer count for the same amount of arable land?
Inefficiency
Which of the following crops production captured 101.7% drastic increase between 2002-2018?
Tea and spices
Which of the agricultural support payments has 20-25% proportion in Turkish Economy?
area-based supports
Which of the following is especially important for the agricultural sector in an economy?
sustainable productivity increase
Which of the following is one of strong determinants for yield in agricultural sector?
Country’s geographical position