Turkish Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research

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Productivity can be achieved not only by seed but also by soil fertility. For this, negative factors affecting the fertility of the soil can be determined by soil analysis and removed by using appropriate fertilizers. In this case, it is very important to know the use of chemical fertilizers and their damages. Based on this, the main purpose of this research is to examine the chemical fertilizer usage habits of the producers. Determining whether the producers use fertilizers consciously, revealing whether the producers know whether excessive use of chemical fertilizers is harmful to the soil and testing the socio-demographic characteristics that may affect this information with binary logit analysis are among the objectives of the study. A questionnaire was applied to 145 producers determined by proportional sampling method. The average age of the producers interviewed within the scope of the survey study is 52 and 59.31% are secondary school graduates. The chemical fertilizer experience of the producers is 23.8 years. 86.21% of the producers prefer chemical fertilizer as it increases the yield. More than half of the producers (62.76%) are of the opinion that if the amount of fertilizer increases continuously, this will not increase the yield. As a result of binary logit analysis; It was revealed that the socio-demographic characteristics of the producers were not statistically effective, but were related (with awareness) to the producers' knowledge of the damages (salinization, heavy metal risk, nutrient imbalance) that chemical fertilizers cause to the soil.