Financing sources of agricultural companies in turkey and financing choices of ornamental plants growers in Antalya

As in every sector, agriculture benefits liabilities as well as capital stock. Agricultural companies aim to reach the sources needed for sustaining their activities or new investments while maintaining a good balance between capital stock and liabilities.This study has been done for determining the financement sources of ornamental plants growers, which are a branch of agricultural production and located in Antalya.In analysis of the study, obtained datas are presented and possible reasons of these indications are discussed. First of all, results obtained from questions, which are aiming to get informations of the companies, are presented, than the datas for the sources and reasons of the liabilities are discussed.As a result, it is determined that liabilities are limited in companies and companies prefer low costed bank loans and long term liabilities. Companies prefer to use credits mostly for running costs rather than investments and it is found that only few companies benefit government grants and incentives.No statistically significant relations have been found between the foundation dates, sizes by the mean of fixed assets and fixed/total assets of the companies compared with preferences of liabilities, number of banks as sources of loan, purpose of the bank loans and terms of the liabilities.