Economic Analysis of Cotton Production in Turkey: A Case Study of Hatay City

Among all other agricultural products, cotton has an important place in terms of added valuecontribution and a wide usage variety in different industries. Turkey was the 7th largest fiber cottonproducer in the world by the time period of 2016/17 with a production amount of 703000 tonswhich provides 3.05% of the total global cotton production. Hatay city is one of the importantcities in terms of cotton production. The province holds 10.32% of cotton production areas andprovides 10.84% of the cottonseed and fiber cotton productions in Turkey. In the enterpriseswhich were examined, input amounts that were used to produce 5.29 tons Raw cotton were asfollows; 26.2 kg seed, 648.8 kg fertilizer, 8.5 lt agricultural pesticide, 404.9 lt diesel fuel, 6417.1kw electricity, and 26.7 manpower. In terms of irrigation and harvest methods, 71.45% of theenterprises were using the surface irrigation method, and 58.38% of them used the machineryharvest method. Within the research area, subsidy excluded income per unit area was found as2447.24 USD/ha and subsidy included income was found as 3529.39 USD/ha. It was found that,agricultural subsidies increase the income per unit area at a level of 44.22%, and deficiencypayments have the biggest share in this contribution (1052.97 USD/ha).