New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science abstracts

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Factors affecting fertiliser use in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) growing: a case from Turkey

Oral Duzdemir

Department of Field Crops
Faculty of Agriculture
Gaziosmanpasa University
60240 Tokat, Turkey
email: orald@gop.edu.tr

Hasan Akca
Murat Sayili

Department of Agricultural Economics
Faculty of Agriculture
Gaziosmanpasa University
60240 Tokat, Turkey

Abstract A farmer survey was carried out in Tokat Province, Turkey to determine the relationship between fertiliser use in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) crops and grower profile (age, education level, land ownership, etc) and other physical factors (farm size, soil analysis, chickpea production area). The chi-square (c2) test was used to determine the relationship. There was a statistically significant relationship between fertiliser use and chickpea production area. There was no significant relationship between farm size and decision making, the amount and type of fertiliser, between farmer education level and fertiliser use, between farmer age and fertiliser use, and between decision making and the amount and type of agro-chemicals and land ownership. In addition, the response of farmers to different questions (whether they used fertiliser to grow chickpea or not, where they purchased fertiliser, and their criteria for deciding the amount and type of fertiliser used in chickpea cultivation, whether they made soil and leaf analyses and the reasons for not using soil and leaf analyses for the use of chemical fertiliser) were analysed.

Keywords fertiliser; chickpea; chi-square test

New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 2008, Vol. 36: 53–57
0014–0671/08/3601–0053     © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2008
H07037; Online publication date 11 March 2008
Received 26 March 2007; accepted 27 November 2007

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