Study on Economic Evaluation of Cabbage Production in Turkey

Cabbages have been had fairly production of the world. China is the first cabbages producer of the world with 24 %. Cabbages production of Turkey is 1.7 % of the world. Cabbages production in leafy vegetables production is 48.2 % in Turkey. Between 1990 and 1994 years cabbages export is changing to 0.5 % from 0.02 % of production. The form of direct sale to consumers is used in 45.3 % of farms. As an average of farmers age is 44.3, education is 5.9 years, family has 5 people and experiment of cabbages production is 11.4 years. Farm size is between 4 to 1500 decar. Average farm size is 66.6 decar and cabbages production land is 11.6 decar in it. 73.4 % is own land, 24.2 % is rented and 2.4 % is operated with sharecropping system of farmland. Average number of parcel is 4.7. 38.3 % of farmland is allocated to vegetables production and in 50.6 % of its it produced cabbages. As an average of studied farms, 101.3 hours of labour force and 2.26 hours of tractor power are used for per decar cabbages production in a production period. 44.4 % of total labour is used for harvesting. 62.5 % of total labour is men workers. Producers is fairly using seeds that their own produce (58.9 %). Ammonium nitrate is commonly used. Averagely 21.56 kg N, 17.08 kg P₂O₅ and 2.56 kg K₂O are used for one decar. Average yield is 4679 kg/da on white cabbages and 3425 kg/da on red cabbages. The percentage of profit is 36.4 % on white cabbages and 0.9 % on red cabbages. But it changes in different areas, because of the prices of labour and tractor, yields and prices of crop. 38.2 % of production cost is inputs. According to the growers, difficulties in marketing are major constraint of cabbages production. 75.1 % on white cabbages and 82.4 % on red cabbages of production is marketed. Cash sale is 77.7 %. In marketing of cabbages is less used packing.