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

GÜNDEN C., ŞAHİN A., Miran B., Yıldırım İ.

JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL RESEARCH, vol.37, no.2, pp.213-216, 2010 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 37 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/09712119.2010.9707126
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL RESEARCH
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.213-216
  • Keywords: Dairy farms, data envelopment analysis, technical efficiency, economic efficiency
  • Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Efficiencies of farms were measured using data envolepment analysis (DEA) on 87 dairy farms in Izmir, Turkey. Technical, allocative and economic efficiencies were 0.615, 0.673 and 0.488, respectively. Only three farms were efficient. 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, 45.17 and 42.42%, respectively.