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¹ Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi, Tarla Bitkileri Bölümü, Hatay
² Dörtyol Gıda, Tarım ve Hayvancılık İlçe Müdürlüğü, Hatay DOI : 10.21566/tarbitderg.281744 - 37% of the peanut production area in Turkey, 40%of the amount of production (2011) takes place in the province of Osmaniye. By examing the agricultural enterprises that producing peanut in osmaniye, socioeconomic structures and production techniques have been specified, problems were identified and solutions are presented. Besides expectations related to peanut production have been determined to contribute to the development of agricultural policy has been targeted.The material of this reserch is obtained by information of face to face questionnaire form with total of 100 randomly peanut producer. This peanut producers were selected from total 20 villages at Osmaniye Center, Kadirli, Düziçi and Sumbas Counties. This Survey was conducted between December 2012 and February 2013. The obtained information belongs to period of production for 2012. According to the results of survey, the average land of the examined enterprises is 128.14 da and land for peanut is 52.85 da. In peanut producers; production area for the first product constitutes 70.71%of total area of peanut production, production area for the second product forms 29.29%of total area of peanut production. The defined biggest problems for enterprises faced are high fertilizer prices, low peanut price, high costs of irrigation and inability to timely harvesting due to rains. 323.70 kg/da is an average yield in the production of peanuts and 2.30 TL/kg is an average selling price are determined. Keywords : Production techniques, peanut, surveys, Osmaniye