Abstract

Turkey has been preparing for the implementation of the common agriculture policy (CAP) in the last four decades. Reaching milk standards is one of the important and difficult components of CAP. Food and agricultural organization (FAO) undertook a milk sector study to review the sector and to provide an analysis of the challenges and constraints in the sector, and the possible measures that would need to be undertaken to prepare Turkey for EU membership. This research was conducted in milk sector in Konya province where there were about 26.226 milk producers and annual milk production was 442, 349 680 L in 2010. The study materials were collected from 4 workshops of dairy and dairy products beneficiaries’ participations in Konya. The workshop methods were moderation techniques. The overall objective is to create a model of civil society dialogue (CSD) on dairy business that can be a guiding model for the other agricultural sub-sectors. Dairy farms, milk production, processing, packaging, and related management functions were analyzed and the implementation of the CSD model for establishing milk standards were drawn as a result of the study. The CSD model which is described in this study may apply for solving related problems of agricultural sub-sectors in developing countries within sub-sector beneficiaries or stockholders.

Key words:  Dairy business, civil society dialogue, milk standards, Konya.