GORS 14 - 2 Econometric analysis of the Olive Production Function in Alsafsafa District (Tartous Governorate) with the Help of Geographic Information System

Abstract

Abstract: The olive tree is one of the keys of the Syrian economy because of its great economic, environmental and social importance, Tartous is ranked fourth in terms of cultivated olives space in the country by an estimated 10.6%, suffering olive cultivation in the province of lack of productivity and economic efficiency of this crop because of the many problems that hinder, the study aimed to build a spatial map, including a digital database of the olive tree in hand Safsafa for 2013 based on the geographic information system to facilitate the search for information and data, in addition to the study of the current status of the production of olives. And estimating production functions, to identify the stage of the production function that is currently where to invest those estimates and invested to increase production and productivity and improve the efficiency of use of available agricultural resources. Land use map of the study area showed that the cultivated area in the olives hand Safsafa 2700 hectares spread over 4280 field includes 410,634 olive trees. It was found that the variables most impact on production in the possessory first category (less than 1 hectare) was the amount of manure, and the number of units of nitrogen effective, the number of human labor hours, while represented in possessory second category (1.2 hectares), the number of units of nitrogen effective and a number of human labor hours, and the number of automated work hours, while in the third possessory Category (3 hectares and over) represented in both the amount of manure number of units of nitrogen effective, and the amount of control the materials used, and the number of human labor hours, and the number of automated work hours. Reached the modulus of elasticity of each of the first tenure and second categories and the third 1.21, and 1.14 and 0.96, respectively, this means that the farm produce in the first production non-economic stage (increasing returns to scale) for the two categories of the first and second tenure, while the farm in the third category are produced in stage economic production (decreasing amplitude) return.