YAŞ MEYVE ve SEBZE PAZARLAMASINDA ARACILAR BAKIMINDAN EN UYGUN KANALIN BELİRLENMESİ : MERSİN İLİ ÖRNEĞİ

There are various fresh produce marketing channels in Turkey. But marketing activities are more commonly performed in wholesale fresh fruit and vegetable markets. In this study, middlemen in Mersin Wholesale Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Market, which is the location for production area, were interviewed. In the study, we tried to determine the most suitable fresh produce marketing channel according to criteria of health, cost, time and legal procedures such as recording. Analytical Hierarchy Process method (AHP) was used in this study. According to AHP results, the most appropriate marketing channel in Mersin is; “producer → middleman in production area → middleman in consumption area → retailer → consumer by 42,68%. The second most appropriate marketing channel is; “producer → middleman in consumption area → retailer → consumer” by 35.89%. When we evaluated criteria for Mersin province, the recording was determined to be the most important criterion with 48,05% in wholesale market and cost was the second with 35.04%. The results of AHP were analyzed by Tobit model.