Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Custos e Agronegocio, cilt.20, sa.1, ss.110-134, 2024 (SCI-Expanded, SSCI, Scopus)
This study aimed to estimate the technical, economic and allocation efficiency levels for tobacco production in the enterprises that include tobacco production in Uşak. For this purpose, efficiency analyzes were performed using the Data Envelopment Analysis method based on the data obtained from the 71 tobacco-growing enterprises. Tobacco yield amount, area, labour force, machine power, fertilizer, pesticide and seed usage levels were used as the main variables in the analyses. Age, education level, household size, experience in tobacco farming, annual tobacco cultivation status, non-agricultural income status, knowledge level in tobacco production, satisfaction level and tendency to continue were included as socio-economic variables in the effectiveness model. The technical efficiency value was determined as 0.794. At this point, enterprises will be able to obtain the same amount of output by reducing the inputs they use by 20.6% on average. As compared to the enterprises that use the input most effectively, the enterprise with the lowest technical efficiency can use its inputs 39.9% effectively. The economic efficiency values of the enterprises varied between 0.099 and 1.000 and were calculated as 0.462 on average. Accordingly, it shows that there are enterprises that produce the same amount of product with 53.80% more cost among the examined enterprises. For tobacco-producing farms, the improvements in production efficiency are more important in terms of gaining income. A positive relationship was found between the efficiency levels and the scale of the enterprise, the rate of use of foreign labour and the rate of cultivation every year.