Antalya Case
Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology, 6(7): 930-935, 2018 Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology Available online, ISSN: 2148-127X www.agrifoodscience.com, Turkish Science and Technology Land Ownership and Profitability of Greenhouse Production: Antalya Case Rahmiye Figen Ceylan1*, Cengiz Sayin1, Makbule Nisa Mencet Yelboğa1, Meral Özalp2, Eda İlbasmiş3, Oya Sav3 1Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Akdeniz University, 07070 Antalya, Turkey 2Department of Accounting, Kumluca Vocational College, Akdeniz University, 07350 Antalya, Turkey 3Department of Agricultural Economics, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Akdeniz University, 07070 Antalya, Turkey A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Agricultural production and income are important for Mediterranean region of Turkey. Research Article The region and especially Antalya province is well-known with greenhouse production. For greenhouse production achieving sustainability is important for meeting domestic and Received 19 March 2018 foreign demand and security of production lands. In order to measure the potential for Accepted 10 May 2018 improving greenhouse operators 281 farmers were surveyed in 2015 in Antalya and profit inefficiency and factors affecting inefficiencies of operators were estimated using Keywords: stochastic frontier approach. Accordingly, the average inefficiency level of operators was Antalya found as 57 %, signifying the potential for improvement. The main objective was to Greenhouse undermine the impact of landownership on this inefficiency level. Yet, the impact of Land ownership other relevant factors referring to greenhouse structures and famers’ characteristics were Profit efficiency estimated as well. While level of education seemed to reduce inefficiency, household size Stochastic profit frontier had appeared as an inefficiency rising factor referring to professional labour endowment of greenhouse production in Antalya.
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