Organization Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Uludag University, Turkey

Year 2000

This study has five chapters. Chapter one serves as an introduction. Chapter 2 presents a short review of integration, vertical coordination concepts, vertical coordination theories and contract farming. The general overview of food industries and rather detailed information about contract farming both in Turkey and the USA are presented in chapter 3. A comparative evaluation of findings about the general structure of food industries and contract farming implementations in Turkey and the USA are also given in chapter 3. Before the conclusion and suggestions in chapter 5, a contract farming model is presented in Chapter 4.