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Factors Affecting Farmers Satisfaction from Water User Associations in the Harran Plain GAP Region Turkey    
Yazarlar
Mustafa Hakkı Aydoğdu
Harran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Kasım YENİGÜN
Harran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Murat Aydoğdu
Özet
The purpose of this paper was to determine the factors affecting farmers’ satisfaction from Water Users Associations (WUAs) in the Harran Plain-Turkey. The data used in this study come from a sample of 378 farmers among 23,204 in the Şanlıurfa-Harran Plain. They were chosen via simple random sampling method and interviewed face to face. Sampling was conducted in 52% of the settlements. To analyze the collected survey data, SPSS 15 was used together with Kruskal Wallis, Mann-Whitney, Pearson Chisquare and the correlation tests. The results indicated the existence of relationship between satisfaction and education levels, knowledge level about WUA, and status of ownership, land area, age, farming experiences, income, and service quality given by WUAs. These factors significantly explained satisfaction of farmers. The average of variables’ highest satisfaction was calculated as 47.4%. The highest satisfaction was 68.5% and belonged to the status of ownership; the lowest one was 28.3% in the case of farming experiences. The managers of WUAs should be concentrating on these factors in order to increase satisfaction and provide training and information for farmers.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Agricultural irrigations,Participation,Sustainability status of ownership,Water management,WUA
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology
Dergi ISSN 1680-7073
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 12-2015
Cilt No 17
Sayfalar 1669 / 1684
Makale Linki http://jast.modares.ac.ir/pdf_13512_f329635ce6a29b5d9d077a30a0b82a3b.html
BM Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları
Atıf Sayıları
WoS 16
SCOPUS 18

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