TY - JOUR ID - 114560 TI - Efficiency Analysis in the Agricultural Sector in Iran: The Case of West Azerbaijan Sunflower Producers JO - International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics JA - IJMAE LA - en SN - AU - Hajihassaniasl, Saeid AD - Department of Economics, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 6 IS - 5 SP - 389 EP - 399 KW - Technical Efficiency KW - Scale Efficiency KW - Data Envelopment Analysis KW - Sunflower KW - Iran DO - N2 - The main purpose of this study is to analyze the efficiency of sunflower production in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran. In many previous studies conducted in Iran, efficiency analyzes of agricultural producers were examined with parametric methods in general. However, in this study, performance analysis of sunflower production by using Tobit model with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is known as nonparametric method, is discussed. The technical inefficiency and scale inefficiencies of sunflower producers in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran were 26.2% and 7.5%, respectively and the ineffective production results revealed. The performance of the producers varied between 12.1% and 100%, indicating a large difference in performance.  In addition, some social and economic factors have significant effects on technical inefficiency of sunflower production in West Azerbaijan province of Iran. UR - https://www.ijmae.com/article_114560.html L1 - https://www.ijmae.com/article_114560_dbe9c397b7dd7ad7891f626803071e4d.pdf ER -