Technical, Allocative and Economic Efficiencies of Turkish Dairy Farms: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract

Giinden, C., $ahin, A., Miran, B. and Yildinm, I. 2010. Technical, allocative and economic efficiencies of Turkish dairy farms : An application of data envelopment analysis. J. Appl. Anim. Res., 37: 213-216.Efficiencies of farms were measured using data envolepment analysis (DEA) on 87 dairy farms in hmir, Turkey. Technical, allocative and economic efficiencies were 0.615, 0.673 and 0.488, respectively. Only three farms were eficient. 62% of farms had decreasing return to scale. It is concluded that the current gross production value could be preserved while decreasing the number of cows, labor (man-days) and maize silage (kg) by 50.29, 45.1 7 and 42.42%, respectively.

Measuring technical, allocative and economic efficiencies of dairy farms in western Turkey

“…Nearly three quarter of farms (77.76%) had the increasing return to scale while the remaining 23.26% of farms had constant return to scale. The reported same ratios for dairy farms were 9.0 and 18.0% in Australia, (Hambrusch et al, 2006), 28.7 and 9.2% in Turkey (Günden et al, 2010), and 19.0 and 17.0% in New Zealand (Wei, 2014), respectively. The farms with constant return to scale had nearly two times higher gross production value per cow than the farms with increasing return to scale (US $ 2590 against US $ (Table 3).…”

“…The overall technical efficiency (0.66) was lower than that of 0.89 and 0.79 calculated for dairy cattle farms in Swedish and USA respectively (Tauer, 1993;Hansson, 2007), but similar to the values (0.65) calculated for dairy cattle farms in Australia (Balcombe et al, 2006). On the other hand, as the overall technical efficiency calculated for dairy cattle farms in Turkey was similar to (0.62) (Günden et al, 2010) our findings, the reported same figure of 0.488 and 0.217 for East African Countries and Jordan, respectively, were fairly lower (Ayele and Beatrice, 2010;Aldeseit, 2013) than that of our calculations.…”

“…The input levels used, management skills and milk prices are considered the major factors affecting the low ratio. The economic efficiency (0.263) was lower than that of 0.692, 0.645 and 0.488 calculated for dairy cattle farms in Australia, Swedish and Turkey (Balcombe et al, 2006;Hansson, 2007;Günden et al, 2010) respectively. Nearly three quarter of farms (77.76%) had the increasing return to scale while the remaining 23.26% of farms had constant return to scale.…”

“…Some studies investigating the cost efficiency of dairy cattle farms are (Bailey et al, 1989;Fraser and Cordina, 1999;Jaforullah and Whiteman, 1999;Hambrusch et al, 2006;Balcombe et al, 2006;Hansson, 2007;Uzmay et al, 2009;Günden et al, 2010;Ayale and Beatrice, 2010;Aldeseit, 2013;Mugera, 2013).…”

Determinants of economic efficiency: A case study of hazelnut (Corylus avellana) farms in Samsun Province, Turkey

“…Similarly, efficiency analysis has been applied relatively little in Turkey. There have been some studies on efficiency in Turkish agriculture (Gunden et al 1998;Zaim & Cakmak 1998;Akturk 2000;Demirci 2001;Ozcelik et al 2006), but there has thus far been no study carried out by applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) to hazelnut farms. Therefore, the objectives of this paper were to calculate farm level efficiency measures and to evaluate the determinants of cost efficiency in hazelnut farms in the Black Sea Region, Turkey.…”