Abstract :
The objective of this study is to determine the efficiency of dairy cattle farms (technical efficiency or production efficiency) and the factors that affect this. For this purpose, a total of 110 surveys were conducted in Aşkale, Şenkaya, Pasinler, and Çat counties of Erzurum. The data obtained were analyzed using a stochastic frontier model, and technical efficiency of dairy cattle farms and the factors that cause this efficiency were determined. Milk yield per animal was used as the dependent variable in the model (technical efficiency model). As for the dependent variables, various units as the amount of consantrated feed consumed per animal, the amount of forage, labor costs, veterinary as well as vaccine and drug costs and other variable costs were used. Whereas in the effects of inefficiency model, the features related to the dairy cattle farms and farmer (the farmer s age, education, experience, status of using knowledge sources, the number of individuals in the family, the size of the barn, milking technique and enjoyment of incentives) were taken into account. Farms are determined to be more effective as the farmer’s age, experience, use of milking machine and enjoyment of incentives increase. Farmers should be given technical information on issues related to animal production and the optimum utilization of the materials based on the importance of knowledge and experience. However, following the policies to increase the number of farms that are in production for the market rather than for self-consumption are of great importance.
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Efficiency , stochastic frontier analysis , dairy farms , Erzurum
