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Land use preferences considering resource economics: Case of organic versus conventional wheat production in Turkey
(Springer, 2022-01-12) UZEL, GÖKHAN; Gürlük, Serkan; GÜRLÜK, SERKAN; Aslak, Esma; Karaer, Feza; KARAER, FEZA; Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi/Ziraat Fakültesi/.; Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi/Mühendislik Fakültesi/Çevre Mühendisliği Bölümü.; 0000-0002-3159-1769; N-8716-2017; AAG-8213-2021; AAG-8099-2021
The organic agricultural production system is considered to be the best alternative to the conventional system in order to solve agricultural externality problems. The adoption of such systems provide environmental, social, and financial benefits to the related communities. The related community may receive economic benefits although they might not recognize those benefits. The current paper examines prospective organic wheat production's positive impacts on Turkish economy. This research seeks to find the optimal cultivated land requirement to be allocated for organic wheat production, and contributes to the available literature by measuring environmental and social effects using the proxy values of regular wheat production in the country. Results dictate that the social optimum amount of conventional wheat production must be 1.3 million hectares. If the annual negative externality of wheat production, which is 227.5 USD/ha, is taken into account, the total annual external cost would be 1,416,061,536 USD/year. The importance of conversion and superiority of organic farming are stressed in the literature only at the micro-level or farm-level rather than the macroeconomic level. Macroeconomic results examined in the current paper complete micro-level studies in the context of agricultural externalities. The study indicates that macroeconomic efficiency of organic production is higher than the conventional system. However, it is suggested that a mild transition path be implemented for better land conversion in developing countries such as Turkey. The system of good agricultural practices may have some advantages for this path.
Resource use efficiency of organic wheat production in Turkey
(Univ Agricultural Sciences & Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, 2019-01-01) Aslak, Esma; Uzel, Gökhan; Gürlük, Serkan; Aslak, Esma; UZEL, GÖKHAN; GÜRLÜK, SERKAN; Uludağ Üniversitesi/Ziraat Fakültesi/Tarım Ekonomisi Bölümü; 0000-0002-3159-1769; AAG-8213-2021; ELQ-3401-2022; IRO-9536-2023
Intensive cropping techniques, over-mechanized agricultural production, inefficient agricultural chemical use have negatively affected world valuable cropland, which is very important to the mankind. About 38% of Earth's land cover is occupied by agriculture. If unsustainable agricultural methods are pursued, they contribute to inefficient resource use. Organic farming is a good alternative in order to provide sustainability and efficient resource use. Yet, its production is not robust enough to play a significant role in feeding the world. Globally, 1.9 billion adults are overweight and, of those, 600 million are obese, while 793 million people are undernourished. Organic agriculture is discussed if it is the most appropriate option for sustainable agriculture. The current paper seeks to find organic wheat production and its positive impacts to the Turkish economy. In Turkey, there is no organic wheat production yet. We revealed the economic benefits when organic wheat production is partially preferred by examining the resource use efficiency. In other words, the nature of organic farming and conventional farming, what those methods demand from nature and restore to the environment, and their unit economic values constitute the subject of this study.