Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Behaviours in Small-Scale Dairy Farms in Turkey

make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Dairy farms are quite important to transform Turkish livestock sector into being more productive and competitive in the process of EU integration. The purpose of this study is to determine the socio economic features of dairy farms in Turkey and to determine producers ’ individual and management goals in the future. In addition, farmers ’ level of participation related to the attitudes, behaviors and subjective norm components are determined and an entrepreneurship index is constructed to determine the factors that influence social economic characteristics of entrepreneurship. The material of the study consists of 167 surveys obtained from Cattle Breeders Association of Turkey in 17 cities through the postal mail in 2007. A five “Likert Scale ” was used to determine behaviors and attitudes of farmers as well as descriptive statistics. In eac