About Program
Depatment of Agricultural Economics has maintaining its workings in the body of Faculty of Agriculture since the year of 1933 when high education started in Turkey.Since then, Academic staff’s contributions to the world of science and technics has continuing by pursuiting of the recent subject areas.Ankara Univesity Agricultural Economics Department has led to establishing of Çukurova, Uludağ and 19 Mayıs Universities’s Departments of Agricultural Economics. Department of Agricultural Economics continues education and training applications at a level of post graduate degree.It supports all works of public institutions and private sector enterprises including the micro and macro issues such as agricultural production economy, policy and development.Before 1983, it had provided training and education in the body of Faculty of Agriculture Post Graduate School.Since then, it has been within the structure of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences.
Goals
Goal of the program is to create a talented workforce who is helpful and well-versed in such issues as statistic, econometric, rural development, agricultural policy and extension, expropriation and valuation, planning, accounting, marketing, organizing, utilization of production factors, land using and solving problems of the sector, bringing forward a proposal to policy implementers and who can also analyze economic, social, political, cultural sides of agricultural activity depending on agricultural economics master degree courses schedule.
Summary of Program Outcomes
Within the scope of Agricultural Economics Program, it is gained knowledge of structural development of agricultural sector and how to improve it.