Agricultural structures and mechanization properties of agricultural enterprises in Ağrı province

This study is aimed at the establishment of a source of the agricultural structures and mechanization properties of agricultural enterprises located in Agri Province. In line of the aim of the study, using data from the Turkish Statistical Institute and Provincial Agriculture Directorate of Agri, first the land assets and their properties, the types of agricultural products and patterns of land use, and the level of agricultural mechanization were determined and then mechanisation criteria were calculated. The results at Agri provincial level were compared with the national level results. The number of the agricultural equipment and machinery which are used in enterprises is a small amount. The total proportion of the cultivated lands that is divided for each tractor in Ağrı is thrice much from the average of Turkey. The number of the tractors(12.86) which are used for a thousand(1000) hectare cultivated land in Ağrı is less than the average of Turkey(37.96). There are 4.556 (four thousand five hundred fifty-six) tractors in Ağrı, which is a small amount. There are no combine harvesters in the province. The total number of the agricultural equipment is 26.750, and the total weight of the equipment is 27.808 tones. The quantity of the power which is used for the cultivated lands in Ağrı is 0.685 kW/ha. The seventy-three(73) percent of the enterprises in Ağrı has used tractors in agriculture. 2007, 88 pages Key words: Agricultual Strucctures, Agricutural Mechanization, Ağrı Province, Agricultural Enterprises