Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Applied Fruit Science, cilt.66, sa.6, ss.2249-2257, 2024 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
The aim of this study, which targeted sour cherry farms in Afyonkarahisar and Konya provinces (constituting approximately 33% of Turkish sour cherry production and 44% of planted areas), was to examine the economic structure of sour cherry production. Primary data from 138 sour cherry farms in the districts of Sultandağı and Çay in Afyonkarahisar province and Akşehir and Doğanhisar in Konya province were collected using the survey method, and this served as the study’s primary source material. When the shares of the production types of the sour cherry-producing farms in the gross product were examined, the share of the gross production value of sour cherry were 48.67%, other crops was 41.99%, livestock was 8.82%, support was 0.31%, and other agricultural income in the total gross product was 0.21%. The gross production value of sour cherry was calculated as 9673.55 € on average for farms, 5884.59 € on average for the region, and 9998.64 € for the gross production value of sour cherry per hectare. The gross production value obtained from sour cherry per hectare varied between 9339.56 € and 11,082.81 € in farm groups. Production costs were determined to be 6220.65 € on average for the farms producing sour cherry. While 41.13% of the production costs were variable costs, 58.87% were fixed costs. On average, production costs per unit area (hectare) were determined to be 6415.91 €. Of the production costs per unit area (hectare), 2639.10 € were variable costs and 3776.81 € were fixed costs. The most important cost element was labour. The gross profit per hectare obtained from sour cherry production on the farms’ average was calculated at 7338.10 €, and the absolute profit was calculated at 3561.29 €. Relative profit was found to be 1.56 on average for the farms. To increase sour cherry production in the research area and Türkiye, it is important to raise producers’ awareness, increase sour cherry processing facilities in the region, reduce input costs, and provide product support for sour cherry.