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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, vol.9, no.4, pp.601-605, 2006 (Scopus)
In this research technical efficiencies of apple production in Turkey were estimated with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Main material was collected through a questionnaire study from farmers in three provinces (Isparta, Karaman and Nigde) of Turkey. Personal interview did from 129 agricultural enterprises during 2001 apple production year. In this study, mean efficiencies of surveyed apple farms were estimated to be 0.60 and 0.90 for constant and variable returns to scale assumptions, respectively and greatest slacks were in fertilizer use (K, P and N, respectively). Appropriate soil tests should be made to determine fertilizer requirements of the soils. According to the results of the tobit regression analysis, the most significant factor affecting efficiency was found to be total farm size. © 2006 Asian Network for Scientific Information.