Abstract
The last period of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the National Struggle passed due to wars. Both the lands lost and the manpower lost during the wars also affected the agricultural activities and caused significant income losses of the state. The Ottoman Empire sent students abroad in the field of agriculture, brought experts from abroad, brought machinery, opened schools and aimed to increase agricultural activities in this way. In the field of agriculture in the Republic of Turkey, Atatürk period was followed exactly these purposes. However, he made a number of scientific and legal regulations in order for the people to cultivate more land and buy more crops, reorganized schools in the field of agriculture, established sample farms, seed breeding stations, trial fields, factories to process agricultural products, and State Economic Enterprises. Thus, in the Atatürk Period, the state informed the people in the field of agriculture with important organizations in the field of agriculture, informed the public with the breeding studies, the seeds it produced, the production techniques and the method of mechanized agriculture and became an example to the public.
In this study, statism practices in the field of agriculture in the Atatürk Period and examples of this statism in Antalya were investigated. The research was conducted in the form of document analysis, and the text was created by analyzing the obtained data.