An Economic Analysis of Canola Production in Trakya Region

Trakya region has provided to 34% of canola production in Turkey. The aim of this study is to investigate the situation of canola production, which has high quality and high yield oil seed in the Trakya region. For this purpose, we used gross profit analysis. Variable costs and other data of canola production were collected by surveys from 100 canola producers in the Trakya region. We calculated net profit with relative unit cost for important products such as wheat, sunflower and canola in the Trakya region. It was found that net profit of canola per decar is higher than other products with TL137,50.