Investigation of the behaviors of farmers purchasing treasury agricultural lands for agricultural production use

The agricultural uses on the agricultural lands belonging to the treasury are quite high. Agricultural lands, which are used for agricultural purposes and also belong to the treasury, can be sold directly to their users, tenants or stakeholders. As a result of the actual use of immovables belonging to the treasury, there are intense purchase demands by the right holders for agricultural lands. The aim of the study is to support the development of forest villagers numbered 6292, the agricultural lands outside the borders of the municipality and contiguous areas, which are located in Manavgat district of Antalya province and valid as of 26.04.2012, and to evaluate the areas that are taken out of the forest borders on behalf of the treasury, and to pass the law on the sale of agricultural lands belonging to the treasury. According to the 12th article, to determine the agricultural production practices of the farmers who purchase the right, to analyze the problems faced by the farmers in the process of direct sales, the reasons for the farmers to buy the agricultural lands directly, the changes in the agricultural use of the farmers, the income-generating behaviors of the farmers on the agricultural lands. To determine the behavior of the treasury to acquire the ownership of agricultural lands. As a result of the research, it has been determined that, as the right holder (tenant, user and stakeholder) in all of the treasury lands in the study area and purchased directly by the farmers, direct sales to the users are carried out only among those that have been used for agricultural purposes for at least three years as of 31.12.2011 and are still in use. . While all of the farmers in the research area were users of agricultural lands belonging to the treasury, they acquired the ownership of the immovable by purchasing from the administration. Farmers who were users of the lands before purchasing the agricultural lands belonging to the Treasury, 33.3% of them have been using the land for 16-20 years, 63.5% of them for more than 20 years, including the period before the purchase, after acquiring the ownership of the land. uses for the purpose. The users of the agricultural lands belonging to the treasury, which are sold to the rightful farmers, were determined as the most (4,76) reasons for purchasing agricultural lands from the administration at a more affordable price. 95.2% of the farmers stated that the land they purchased was not suitable for agricultural production in the first period when the land was occupied and used for agricultural production. 81% of the farmers made these lands arable within 1-5 years. 42.9% of the farmers who purchased the agricultural land belonging to the treasury stated that they adopted the agricultural land belonging to the treasury as their own property when they had not purchased the immovable yet and passed on to them through inheritance such as ancestral place, place of father. 38.1% of the farmers stated that their income from agricultural lands increased after purchasing agricultural lands. The farmers who purchased the agricultural lands belonging to the treasury stated that the most common problem they encountered during the purchasing process of the agricultural land (96.8) was the late completion of the sales transactions. Keywords: Antalya, Direct sales, Entitlement, Treasury-owned Agricultural Land