COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF TWO DIFFERENT IRRIGATION RESOURCES FOR FIELD PLANTS: HARRAN PLAIN SAMPLING

Agriculture is one of the locomotive sectors of the world and Turkey's economy because of the basic needs of the people, the provision of raw materials for industry, the contribution it provides to employment and its direct and indirect contribution to exports. In ？anl？urfa, which is one of the important agricultural basins of Turkey, within the borders of GAP, agriculture is carried out in 1.014.279 hectares’ area and 16,34% of this is realized in Harran Plain. The subject of the study is irrigated with GAP irrigation in the area of 165.800 hectares in the Harran Plain and in the area of 10.711,1 hectares, which is not reached by this irrigation, agriculture is provided by waters supplied from underground water wells. In this study, the economic analysis of water use in agriculture was made. It is possible to obtain values close to each other with 1m3 of water in cotton cultivation made with both irrigation sources. However, although this is not the case in the production of second product corn and cereal, the second product corn and cereal agriculture take negative values made with underground water wells