This study was conducted to provide consultative informations on Turkish rice under the Korean-Turkey Free Trade Agreement and ‘Golden Seed Project’. Rice was introduced in Turkey around 16th Century. However, commercial rice growing began only 30~40 years ago. Rice has become crucially important in Turkish diet as consumption of wheat per capita has been gradually decreasing. Since 1982, Fifty-two rice varieties were developed with coordination of National Rice research project in Trakya Agricultural Research Institute. The most popular rice variety, Osmancik-97, covers 70% of national rice growing area. Main problems of rice cultivation in Turkey is insufficient water for irrigation, continuing occurrence of red rice and small farm size with high input cost. Turkey also has potential socio-economic problems in rice farming such as lack of confidence between the rice producers and governmental institutions or personalities. Turkish farmers also desires do not succeed rice farming at least for their children. Rice production of Turkey increases every year however, it still does not reach to meets national demands. The volume of rice imports in Turkey reached to 493 thousand tons in 2014 with value of 277 million USD and this import trend is expected to continue.

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  터키의 벼 생산 및 소비 현황
  터키의 벼 연구 및 종자시장
  터키의 벼 재배 문제점
  터키의 벼 수출입 및 정책 동향
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• 이기환(경북대학교 농업생명과학대학 농산업학과) | Gihwan Yi (Dept. of Farm management, Kyungpook National University) Corresponding author