Machinery Levels of Black Carrot-Producing Agricultural Enterprises in Ereğli and Karapınar Towns of Konya Province

Year 2019, Volume: 33 Issue: 3, 183 - 189, 15.12.2019

Mahmut Yılmaz Haydar Hacıseferoğulları

Abstract

The primary objective of the present study was to generate a database for mechanization levels of black carrot-producing agricultural enterprises in Konya region. Sample villages were selected purposefully, and 37 enterprises were visited to apply face-to-face questionnaires. Present findings revealed that land size per enterprise was 1124.6 da, average number of plots was 10.2, total number of plots was 379 and average plot size was 78.8 da. About 62.69% of total cultivated lands was used for black carrot production and it was respectively followed by irrigated wheat farming (15.39%), tomato cultivation (7.09%) and irrigated barley farming (6.61%). With regard to mechanization level of the present enterprises, number of tractors per enterprise was 2.81, average tractor power was 68.65 kW, number of tools and machines per tractor was 6.52, mass of tool-machine per tractor was 9.45 tons, average engine power per unit area was 1.72 kW ha-1, number of tractors per 1 000 ha land area was 24.99 and cultivated land per tractor was calculated as 40.01 ha.

Keywords

Agricultural Machinery, Agricultural Mechanization, Ereğli town, Karapınar town, Mechanization Level, Tractor