Abstract

This research has been carried out to determine effective factors on decision making behavior for organic olive cultivation in the Izmir, Aydin and Çanakkale provinces where organic olive production is done intensively. Logistic regression method has been used for the determination of effective factors on decision making behavior of organic olive cultivation. Whether making or not making organic olive cultivation was considered as a dependent variable; individual characteristics, farm holding characteristics and sources of information were considered as independent variables in the model. It has been found that of individual characteristics (income), (type of land ownership) and of farm holding characteristics (machinery assets) are the significant factors on decision making for organic olive cultivation. The other significant factors are economic and environmental reasons in the model. It has been calculated that, the probability for farmers who use formal information sources to make organic olive cultivation is 333 times higher than that of the farmers who use informal information sources.

Key words: Organic olive cultivation, decision making, logistic regression.