Support Purchases of the Hazelnut During Democrat Party

F？SKOB？RL？K was established by hazelnut producers that had become especially important in the development of the Black Sea region. In the making of markets for agricultural products, one can identify different elements for each product ,which had played important roles. Merchants, for instane, had a more significant role in the hazelnut market than the producers and F？SKOB？RL？K. Activism of merchants increased with state’s support purchases and (albeit late) intervetion to market prices. Hazelnut was one of the most important foreign trade products of the country. This point put the hazelnut to government’s agenda. However, it continued to be produced by a limited number of producers in a very limited area. In 1950s, it began to be monoculture in the Black Sea region. Regardless of the market price, the fact that producers have to sell the hazelnut and the advanced sales made before harvest; policy makers could hardly protect the interests of producers. The study examines the “support purchases” made by the state during the Democratic Party continued regularly between 1951 and 1958. The main source of this study is “Fonds of Republican Period” section of the State Archives