Efficiency analysis of cattle breeding farms in Thrace Region, Turkey

Abstract

Turkey is one of the most favorable countries for agriculture and animal husbandry regarding to geographical structure. The livestock sector has been constituted approximately 10% of the national income of Turkey. According to the Turkish Statistics Institute's data, the number of bovine animals of Turkey and Thrace region is 14 million 222 thousand and 43 thousand respectively. The artificial insemination, which has been successfully applied in the region for many years, has provided important advances in the presence of bovine animals regarding genotype characteristics and the ratio of cultural and cultural hybrid animal to total animal existence is very high. Due to this situation, the Thrace region is regarded as a region that has the characteristic of being a breeding warehouse of Turkey. The aim of this study is to determine the efficiency of cattle breeding farms, investigate the reasons for inefficiency of ineffectiveness farms, determining the precautions to be taken for the development of cattle breeding and analyzing the factors effecting economic efficiency which producing in Thrace Region. Data Envelopment Analysis method was used in the efficiency analysis of the cattle breeding farms in the study. According to the results of the analysis, the technical efficiency coefficient of the farms ranged from 0.071 to 1 and average score has been calculated as 0.49. Also, Tobit model was used to determine the effects of variables such as education level, experience year, number of affiliated agricultural cooperative and number of animals in the farms on efficiency.