1Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ege University, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey.
2Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
3Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Yuzuncu Yιl, Van, Turkey.
Efficiencies of farms were measured using data envolepment analysis (DEA) on 87 dairy farms in İzmir, Turkey. Technical, allocative and economic efficiencies were 0.615, 0.673 and 0.488, respectively. Only three farms were efficient. 62% of farms had decreasing return to scale. It is concluded that the current gross production value could be preserved while decreasing the number of cows, labor (man-days) and maize silage (kg) by 50.29, 45.17 and 42.42%, respectively.
Dairy farms, data envelopment analysis, technical efficiency, economic efficiency
