THE ROLE OF FARM SIZE TO ACHIEVE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY

	THE ROLE OF FARM SIZE TO ACHIEVE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY
journal of kerbala university
Article 1, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 28-35 PDF (0 K)
Abstract
The goal of the economic development to eradicate hunger and poverty and the sustainable use of the environment and to achieve this depends to a large extent on how to deal with the earth, and administering the correct and scientific use can be accessed safely and just for this and control over resources, ensuring the provision of adequate food and achieve rural development advanced, and provides livelihoods for the current generation and future generations, so the goal of search judged integrated set of activities performed by the farmers under the resources and the circumstances of Agriculture and its relation to the size of the farm through a random sample of farmers in the province of Diyala included on 29 farmers were interviewed through a form questionnaire prepared for this purpose. Through the analysis of the cost structure shows that the costs of family labor of the most important items of fixed costs as representing 65% of them in the first category, while farms fell in the second category farms to 48% due to lower average costs increase the size of the farm, either variable costs, the cost of production inputs were the most important items, as recorded the third lowest rate category of these costs amounted to 100,618.3 dinars per acre. When applying evaluation criteria categories sample question results showed that the third category achieved the best results of the applicable standards, as was her highest efficiency of using available items for each JD spender on those elements, has also acquired the highest productivity per worker amounted to 2,355,769 dinars and higher productivity wage was 8.3 per JD spender on wages, one of the farms that have efficiently work item in the absence of disguised unemployment as a result the size of farms large as the percentage of the net profits from the sales were in this category 52.5% and an indication of the success of economic unity, also achieved the third category the best standards (rate of return of investment, the degree of industrialization, net cash income, Earnings per dinar, capital productivity) (43%, 0.31 0.220188 KD 999 fils 0.30018), respectively. Based on the study recommends the need to invest in large farms because of their ability to absorb technology and reduce production costs with a concerted effort to provide what the farmer needs capital to develop its activities with the intensification of production other productive resources

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