Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture No. 2/09
Agricultural performance in Turkey and some European
countries:
an application factorial analysis
Halil Fidan and Füsun Tatlıdil
University of Ankara, Turkey
Abstract
Main aim of this article is to analyze agricultural performances of
Turkey and some of EU countries. The models of factor analysis
represent each country’s agricultural performance. This model, in which
they treat simultaneously variable manifest and variable latent, settle
down like models of Confirming Factorial Analysis within the field of
the models of agricultural performance. Part of 32 variables obtained
by FAO, USSD, Eurostat. Variables are compiled and then it was obtained
eight factors. “IRPLU” (Intensiveness of Rural Population and Land
Use); factor 2 “AFTIIU” (Agricultural Foreign Trade and Intensiveness
of Input Use); factor 3 “PAP” (Productivity of Agricultural
Production); factor 4 “ILUOCA” (Intensiveness of Land Use in the Out of
Agriculture); factor 5 “IAFC” (Intensiveness of the Agricultural Food
Consumption), factor 6 “IMU” (Intensiveness of Machinery Use); factor 7
“IAG” (Intensiveness of the Agricultural Growth) and factor 8 “MUAH”
(Machinery Use in Animal Husbandry). “IRPLU” was found that it was the
most important factor from the aspect of Turkey.
Keywords: Agricultural performance, factorial analysis, scores value
JEL: Q 190
Vol. 48 (2009), No. 2: 101-111