Cross-Country Comparison of Efficiency in the Olive Oil Sector: Italy-Turkey
Abstract
In this study, Turkish and Italian mills were compared in terms of efficiency scores and quality and environmental sensitivity. In the study, metafrontier method was used to determine efficiency scores, and indexes formed from responses obtained through questionnaires were used to determine quality and environmental sensitivities. In addition, the factors that affect the efficiency scores were determined by 1000 repeated trunceted regression analysis. The estimated efficiency scores for CCR, BCC and SCA models are respectively 74%, 80% and 93% for Turkish mills and 81%, 87% and 84% for Italian mills. It is also determined that Turkish mills and Italian mills can increase their olive oil production about 45% and 49% respectively without changing their existing inputs. When we check the factors which thought to affect the efficiency scores, we estimated that the number or partners and number of the permanent unskilled labour have negative effect and production managers experience, special training and quality index have positive effect on efficiency scores in Turkish mills. In the Italian mills, production managers experience, special training, quality index and environmental indeks, were found to have a positive effect on efficiency scores. As a result, Turkish mills have to increase their quality and environmental sensivities and decrease the number of partners, number of permanent unskilled labour for the competition of Turkish olive oil.
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- Armagan G., Ozden A., Bekcioglu S., 2010. Efficiency and total factor productivity of crop production at NUTS1 level in Turkey: Malmquist index approach. Quality and Quantity, 44: 573-581.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Agricultural Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Altuğ Özden
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Türkiye
Maurizio Prosperi
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Türkiye
Rafaela Dios-palomares
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Türkiye
Armando Ursittl
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Türkiye
Publication Date
December 31, 2019
Submission Date
November 11, 2019
Acceptance Date
December 2, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Volume: 25 Number: 2
Cited By
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02307-5