COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ANALYSIS AND PLANNING OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 4233 ANALYSIS AND PLANNING OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Agricultural Management

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR YASEMIN ERGÜNER

Offered to

Agricultural Management (Evening)
Agricultural Management

Course Objective

The purpose of this course, students gaining the skills about how to evaluate annual activity results of farm, using and practise of basic planning methods.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to transfer to practise basic business principles.
2   Being able to commend difference and structural circumstances of farms.
3   Being able to collect using data for planning and analysing of farms.
4   Being able to determine activity results and performance of farms.
5   Being able to determine cost and profitability of production branches.
6   Being able to establish effective using of resources.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and scope of agricultural business
2 Definition of farms and categorization of farms
3 Characteristics of farms and different aspects of other business enterprises, factors effect on performance of farms
4 Annual activity results and capital circumstance of farms
5 Basic concepts and principles of agricultural business
6 Practise of business concepts and principles for making agricultural business decisions I
7 Practise of business concepts and principles for making agricultural business decisions II
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Role of of planning in agricultural business and types of agricultural planning concepts
10 Data related planning
11 Planning methods (Budgeting method)
12 Planning methods (Planning program method)
13 Planning methods (Linear programming method; profit maximization)
14 Planning methods (Linear programming method: cost minimization)
15 General Evaluation and Review
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Main books:
1. Rehber, E., Tipi, T., 2005, Tarımsal Işletmecilik ve Planlama, Uludağ Üniversitesi Güçlendirme Vakfı, Bursa
2. Erkuş, A., R. Demirci, 1996, Tarımsal Işletmecilik ve Planlama, A.Ü. Zir.Fak. Yay., Yayın no:1435, Ders kitabı: 417, Ankara.
Suplemantary books:
1. Inan, H., 1999, Çiftlik Yönetimi ve Planlaması, Tekirdağ.
2. Miran, B., 2005, Uygulamalı Işletme Planlaması, Izmir.
3. Talim, M., 1999, Tarımsal Üretimin Ekonomisi, Ege Üniv. Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları,Yardımcı Ders Kitabı, Izmir.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecturing
2. Question- answer
3. Active participation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FN Final
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE VZ*0.40 + FN* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ*0.40 + BUT* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes will be assessed by mid-term and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Tutorials 2 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 74

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