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This work is a field research that studies the behavior of farmers as consumers and investors in the process of purchasing agricultural machinery, equipment and supplies to reduce production costs. In the case of this research, of course, we are dealing with that part of the production costs that is affected by the producers' own business activity, excluding the part of the fiscal cost that is burdened on the total cost of production, which the producers can hardly influence. For this purpose, 429 producers were interviewed by the snowball sampling method on the process of information, advice and decision-making on the procurement of the means of production. The above mentioned inputs, which require relatively large funds for their acquirement and their use, along with other factors, have a significant impact on the agricultural production cost. Survey data show that there is often a confusion between the producers’ cost of living and the agricultural production cost, and that no scale economies are created since they buy most of the products they consume. We also conclude that farmers do not consider buying or using collectively an agricultural machinery, equipment or equipment to help reduce production cost. A further major conclusion is that they calculate the burden on the cost of production of a machine or equipment and that they would prefer Greek machines if they existed. In addition, the results show that, on the one hand, the acres of land held by each farmer can affect the criterion by which they purchase a machine and from where they will collect information on that market, and on the other hand, they can influence collective action when purchasing or using them.