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, cilt.37, sa.2, ss.213-216, 2010 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 37 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2010
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/09712119.2010.9707126
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.213-216
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Dairy farms, data envelopment analysis, technical efficiency, economic efficiency
  • Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.