Economic analysis of tomato cultivation in plastic greenhouses of Antalya Province in Turkey

Crop production in a greenhouse has the disadvantages such as high establishment and operational costs compared to the other agricultural production areas. Therefore, determining the production costs of the products grown in a greenhouse which has advantages such as more products per unit area and higher selling price due to the time advantage in marketing, and the economic outcome of the operational activities are important. In this study, 66 producers, who were determined by purposive sampling method and engage in greenhouse tomato cultivation in Serik district of Antalya province consisted the sample size. The data for the 2016-2017 production season were collected via the face to face questionnaires. The socio-economic characteristics of the producers primarily were examined in the analysis of the data, and then the production cost of 1 kg tomatoes was calculated. The results indicated that the total cost of tomato production in the plastic greenhouses per decare was US$ 621.34, and the ratio of variable costs to the total production costs was 80.48%. The cost of tomato production was determined as 0.061 US$/kg and the yield was 10151 kg/da. The relative profit of tomato production was calculated as US$ 4.08.