Total costs, labor requirements and work efficiencies in second fodder corn silage production: A case study from Samsun Province in Turkey*

Year 2022, Volume: 37 Issue: 1, 83 - 96, 14.02.2022

Recep Kadir Sivri Taner Yıldız

https://doi.org/10.7161/omuanajas.932426

Abstract

This study was carried out to determine the total costs, labor requirements and wok efficiencies in the second fodder corn silage production mechanization by survey method in Çarşamba town of Samsun district in 2018. The total variable and fixed costs are calculated as 3047.70 TL ha-1 and 7986.60 TL ha-1, respectively The share of variable and fixed costs in total production costs was determined as 27.59 and 72.41%, respectively. Among the variable costs, the highest share was obtained by fertilization (9.54%) and spraying costs (4.18%). The highest share in the fixed costs was the family labor (24.53%). The highest and the lowest labor requirements were found for harvesting (4.98 h ha-1) and for transportation (1.76 h ha-1), respectively. The highest work efficiency was obtained for transportation (0.57 ha h-1). In particular, it has shown that variable costs can be reduced by a good mechanization planning, which can lead to more profitable production with the effective use of agricultural machinery.

Keywords

Aftercrop, corn, manpower requirement, silage, total expense, work capacity

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