Abstract

Commodity Exchanges are the typical organizations that is the agricultural products could be easily exchanged under pure competition conditions in it which is organized by the merchants through using special trade laws. These organisations have also very important role for the countries in many cases such as in economics, social, cultural and political situations. Especially, according to the popular agenda has being argued nowadays that is, new agricultural production and structural policies used by the government and addition to supporting, marketing and pricing policies applied; development strategies and reorganizing studies about commodity exchanges, which are closely related with the marketing of agricultural products, have been gained great importance in our country. The main data of this research, has been coilected by using questionnaires to the directors of the commodity exchanges which are located in Thrace region. The questionnaires which are done by commodity exchanges have been realized by two stages. The related data about physical infrasutructure, qualified staff and general sutructure of the commodities were collected by face-to-face interviews to the general secreteriats using total sampling method.the other data related with the open out-cry system, specialized commodity exchanges, the sutructure of construction of futures market and etc., were collected to the five members in each board of trade (55 members). Consequently, according to the criterias listed above, the all commodity exchanges were examined detailed and the advatage and disadvantage situations were determined respectively. In addition to the development potentials were also examined and necessity suggestions were offered to be achiving higher levels as to developed countries.