Abstract
The paper uses data envelopment analysis to compute overall technical and input-specific technical efficiency measures of conventional and organic raisin-producing households in Turkey. The questionnaires were applied to fourty-four organic and thirty-eight conventional producers determined by stratified random sampling. For each household group the average cost efficiency and technical efficiency coefficients are determined to be 0.712 and 0.862 for organic households, while 0.844 and 0.903 for the conventional group. According to the coefficients calculated for individual and different returns to scale, it can be stated that conventional households are on average more efficient relative to their own technology.
Highlights
Eficiencia de costes en la agricultura orgánica: comparación entre familias productoras de pasas orgánicas y convencionales en Turquía
Farrell (1957) proposed that the efficiency of a firm consists of two components: technical efficiency (TE), which reflects the ability of a firm to obtain maximal output from a given set of inputs, and allocative efficiency (AE), which reflects the ability of a firm to use the inputs in optimal proportions, given their respective prices and the production technology
A t-test on the significance of the observed difference between the average variable costs showed that this difference was statistically significant
Summary
Eficiencia de costes en la agricultura orgánica: comparación entre familias productoras de pasas orgánicas y convencionales en Turquía. Según los coeficientes calculados por individuo y diferentes respuestas de la escala, se puede afirmar que las familias productoras convencionales son de media más eficientes en relación a su propia tecnología. While Italy has a 13% share in world grape production, France (12%), Spain (11%), USA (8%) and Turkey (6%) follow this country respectively. USA (45%), Turkey (26%) and Iran (13%) are large raisin producing countries. Organic grape production has been realized in limited countries in the world. Among these countries, USA, Turkey and some EU countries such as France, Italy and Germany have the most important place. Especially in EU countries and the USA, organic grapes are produced towards wine production. Raisin exports from Turkey have largely increased over the years. The scarcity of resources exposes the subject of determining efficiency in the resource use
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