How Effective is Agricultural Mechanization on Agricultural Production? A Panel Data Analysis

Authors : Nisa Şansel TANDOĞAN

Pages : 13-20

Doi:10.24181/tarekoder.1013081

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Publication Date : 2022-07-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Purpose: This study aims to explain the relationship between agricultural mechanization and production by using annual data between the 2006-2019 period at the regional level of Turkey. Design/Methodology/Approach: 12 regions under NUTS 1 and ARDL test are used for analysis. As variables, the number of machines used, labor, income and land are used. Findings: The empirical results reveal that agricultural production has a positive relationship with income, land and machine usage, but negative with labor in the long term. Although the negative impact of labor is an unexpected result, it is asserted that the machines substitute the labor in some studies. Hence, the increase in machines leads to fall in the number of labor and it increases the agricultural production. Also, results show that the rise in income causes the more agricultural production, labor and machine usage because it creates a resource for the more inputs, investment and new machines. It also makes being agricultural labor attractive. On the other hand, the agricultural production is also a reason of income because the more agricultural production increases, the more profit and income increases. Another causality result shows that there is an important impact of the rise in the agricultural land on the machine usage. Originality/Value: When looking into the literature, it is seen that there is scarcely any study handling the mechanization impact on agricultural production in Turkey especially empirically. Hence, this study aims to fill the gap in this field and explain the relationship between agricultural mechanization and agricultural production clearly.
Keywords : Makineleşme, Tarımsal Üretim, Sürdürülebilirlik, ARDL test