An Essay of defining the fruit producing regions of Turkey

SUMMARY Master Thesis Esen DURMUŞ An Essay on Defining the Fruit Producing Regions of Turkey. Fırat University The İnstituation of Social Sciences The Department of Geografhy 2001, 161 pace. In this study, we tried to demonstrate the determination of some factors which are used in the definition of agricultural areas the determination of the main factors and how these have been grouped according to the production of fruit in the counties of Turkey. We also talked about the studies made in our country and in the world and we shaped the study according to this. In this way the distribution maps of 36 kinds of fruit have been drawn by evaluating the average valves of 6 years between 1992 and 1997 the growing conditions of fruit the surface shapes of the country and the climate factors, together. As a result of using all these maps, 28 different regions have been determined for the production of fruit. While determining these regions the areas where fruit is grown less or where fruit is never grown have been demonstrated. As a result of the studies of the geographical analysis and geographical and physical examinations of nearly every part of our country, it was seen that the country was rich in shapes of the earth surface, and the exterior parts weren't so high as they were thought to be. By examining the differences in shapes of the earth surface, namely the grassy lands, river basins and the regions where the depressions and elevations decrease it was also seen that it wasn't possible to draw it in only one way. THE KEY WORDS: Agricultural regions, Agricultural areas, fruit producing areas, fruit trade. m