Özpinar, SakineÜrkmez, Ünal2025-01-272025-01-2720171302-7050https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/256798https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/13781In order to have a more precise description of agricultural farm structure which has significant affect on agricultural mechanizaton properties and characteristics of crop production systems, as well as to assess possibilities for improving production and farming conditions in which crop production is organized, a survey based research was directed at selected group of farms the Çanakkale province. 570 questionnaires have been used to determine structural properties of the agricultural farms registered to farmer registration system in 2012-2013 years. Questionnaire was divided into four sections: General information of the farm, agricultural and structural information, education and the perspectives of future farming. In results, average age in the most of analysed farms was 45 years, and person in each family was 3.72, but 2 persons of them were contributed to the agricultural production. The most of family persons have primary education while the rate of graduates from the university were quite low with 5%. The distribution of the rate of owned and hired agriculture land was the same. The main crops was wheat, tomatoes, olive and horticulture production. 58% of the total agricultural land was irrigated by ground-water, the rest of the land with 43% was non-irrigated, especially under cereal production. The most of farmers have expresed a positive expectation from future due to appropriate agricultural policies such as grant of mechanization equipments. © 2017 Namik Kemal University - Agricultural Faculty. All Rights Reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAgricultural structure; Agriculture; Agriculture crops; Questionnaire; ÇanakkaleArticle1411031132-s2.0-85044789762256798Q3