Agricultural development cooperatives in Turkey: A case study of Şanlıurfa

In this research a face to face survey was conducted with the agricultural development cooperatives members in Sanliurfa. The members relationship with the cooperatives, the education activities provided by coopertaives, the problem faced by members, and some demographic information were analyzed. The analysis were completed by using frequency tables, deterministic statistics, correlation coefficients, and t and F tests.According to results, the members were happy to be member of agricultural development cooperatives and attended all activities provided by them. The majority of member were holding membership to some other agricultural based cooperatives and unions. The coopertives? efford to help the members in input gathering, production, processing marketing and etc. was realized. As a result of that, comparing prior to the membership it has been seen that most of the members have experienced higher income.The main problems faced by members were difficulty in storage and marketing of the product they produce. In addition to that, there s requirement for the cooperatives to increase their education activities.