مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Assesing the technical efficiency of farms producing wheat seed and its determinants in TR83 region, Turkey

Abstract :

The main objectives of this study were to evaluate the technical efficiency in wheat seed growing and todetermine the factors affecting technical efficiency in TR83 region of Turkey. Data were collected from72 wheat seed-growing farms by using questionnaire. Conventional economic analysis approaches wereused for the economic analysis of the farms surveyed. Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) was used toassess the technical efficiency at farm level and to estimate the parameters affecting technicalefficiency. The results of efficiency analysis revealed that technical efficiency in the study area rangedfrom 0.68 to 0.96 (mean 0.81). By eliminating the technical inefficiency, the sample farms will be ableto reduce their amount of input use with a rate of 19 % without any reduction in the amount ofproduction. It was determined that other variable costs except for seed, fertilizer and labor in wheat seedgrowing were redundant, and this resulted in decreasing the technical efficiency. Study results alsorevealed that variables such as education status, record keeping, family size and the land allocated towheat seed production were the important variables influencing wheat seed growing activities. Sinceseed growing companies, who contracted with seed growers, determine the amount of all inputs such asseed, fertilizer, etc. used for wheat seed production, revising their technical applications for seedgrowing and auditing the farms for more accurate implementations to be used by them in practice mayincrease the technical efficiency level of sample farms in wheat seed production.