Agricultural financing practices in Turkish banking sector

The agricultural sektor has a strategic importance for the nutritional needs of mankind. Whit the technological developments in the agriculture and food sector, due to meet the food needs of growing world population could not be met and are expected not to be met. In this case the agricultural sector is brought to the position of protected and supported needs in the eyes of the world economy. The most important topic of recent years to ensure the safety of the food-development and growth of the agriculture sector is becoming increasingly important. One of the biggest obstactes in front of the industry‟s growth, comes from in order to obtain income by harvesting penod lack of financial problem. Economies are working to resolve agricultural financial in various ways in Turkey, although the methods are inadequate in agricultural financing according to sources shows difference in Turkey sources of agricultural finance are incentives and grants provided by the state, agricultural grants by international institutions and organizations agricultural insurance warrants factoring by agricultural commondity Exchange on of the first ways that comens to mind in agricultura is agricultural credits. Agricultural credist are seen in the same way in many outher countries as commercial credits but in Turkey it is addressed under the heading of agricultural banking. Even though the first thing that comes to mind for agricultural credit in Turkey is Ziraat Bank recentit this situation becomes to embody with Denizbank. Denizbank‟s agricultural banking innovations brought it self to a mark. Therefore other private banks also started to interested in this area and the increase in agricultural banking activities provides new solutions for agricultural financing.