The legal and institutional infrastructure of organic agriculture in Turkey and the progress of the production and the marketing of organic agricultural products are analyzed. An overview of the field research carried out in Turkey, on both the production and consumption of organic products, is presented. The policies currently implemented for the improvement of the sector have been evaluated. Some strategic policy suggestions have been put forward.

Abstract:Food safety is important due to new protection measurements applied in the growing world trade as much as the raise and continuity of life quality. In recent years, the countries have begun to face with important problems both in domestic consumption and exportation, because of the sensitivity of consumers on the safety of food products. Regarding this, in the dairy industry, which is an important sub sector of the food industry, the food safety issues has begun to gain importance in developing countries like the developed ones as a result of the world trade. Therefore the aim of this study can be stated as examining the food safety systems for dairy industry and comparing them with Turkey. Key words: dairy industry, food safety, HACCP, TurkeyAbstrakt: Význam potravinové bezpečnosti roste jak vzhledem k novým ochranným opatřením aplikovaným ve stále rostoucím světovém obchodě, tak také vzhledem ke kontinuálnímu zvyšování kvality života. V posledních letech řada zemí čelila významným problémům jak v domácí spotřebě tak při exportu, poněvadž citlivost spotřebitelů vůči bezpečnosti potravinářských produktů roste. V souvislosti s tím také nabývají v rámci mlékárenského průmyslu, který je významným pododvětvím potravinářského průmyslu, na významu, hlediska potravinové bezpečnosti důležitosti jak v rozvojových, tak ve vyspělých zemích, které se podílejí na světovém obchodu. Cíle této studie proto je zkoumání systémů potravinové bezpečnosti ve světovém mlékárenském průmyslu a jejich komparace se situací v Turecku.Klíčová slova: mlékárenský průmysl, potravinová bezpečnost, HACCP, Turecko

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This study aims to determine the preferred criteria of cut flower producers when choosing marketing channels, and the degrees of importance of these criteria. In this study, the levels of importance of the different marketing criteria used by cut flower producers and their marketplace preferences were analyzed using the analytic hierarchy process. The data used in this study were obtained from questionnaires completed by 82 cut flower producers in İzmir province. The most preferred marketing criterion for producers was payment guarantee, followed by ease of marketing and price. When producers’ marketplace preferences were ranked according to the different criteria, cooperatives ranked first, followed by wholesalers and exporters. The Tobit model was employed to reveal the socio-economic variables that affected the producers’ choices and the criteria considered in the analytic hierarchy process. It was established that cooperatives play an important role in marketing cut flowers and developing this sector in Turkey.

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