@article{2018,title={A RESEARCH ON THE REASONS OF ORGANIC PRODUCT CONSUMPTION: ŞANLIURFA SAMPLING},abstractNode={In this study, it was aimed to determine consumption reasons of organic product consumers living in Şanlıurfa. In this context, 382 questionnaires were conducted with organic food consumers via face-to-face interviews by simple random sampling method. The Likert attitude scale, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used in the analyzes. Organic foods were bought 77.7% for the whole family and 34.8% when it is needed. The 77% of the participants stated that there was not enough publicity about organic foods. The Gender, age, marital status, level of education, occupation, income and place of residence are used as variables. Significant differences were found at P<0.05 level in gender, age, education and income variables, due to female in gender, age group 18-29 in age, higher education graduates in education, and almost all subgroups in income variable. Significant differences were found in the marital status variable at P<0.01 level, due to married people. In the variables of occupation and place of residence, meaningfulness was found at P<0.10 level, due to the self-employed and the residents of Eyyubiye. This study is first for GAP-Şanlıurfa.},author={Mustafa Hakkı AYDOĞDU-- Fikret KAYA - Mehmet Emre EREN - Hatice PARLAKÇI DOĞAN},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}