Tarım Ekonomisi Dergisi

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Efficiency studies in the agricultural sector have taken place in the literature especially in the last five decades. These studies, which have started to be seen frequently in Turkey with the beginning of 2000, are important in terms of sustainability of agriculture and leaving touchable, smellable and tasteable foods to future generations. In this study, which investigated the efficiency studies carried out in the field of plant production in Turkey, all the published researches were classified according to the methods used, models, inputs-outputs and NUTS1 regions where they were implemented. A total of 38 researches have been focused. At the end of the general evaluation, for the studies which Data Envelopment Analysis was applied, the means of CRS scores, VRS scores and scale efficiency scores were calculated as 0.681, 0.817 and 0.839 respectively. The mean of technical efficiency scores for the studies which stochastic frontier analysis was applied calculated as 0.860. The region with the highest efficiency score within the NUTS1 regions was designated as TR3. It has been determined that in plant production, the inputs like the size of the production area, capital and labor should be improved, and that the key to this improvement is specialization.