Orange Carrot Harvesting in K？r？khan, Labor Requirements and Harvest Cost

Harvests of vegetables usually consumed as table and fresh, were made by human labor in our country as in other countries of the world. In our country, located in the temperate-subtropical climate zone, many vegetables were produced and consumed in abundant quantities. One of them is orange carrot. K？r？khan / Hatay is one of the first three provinces to stand out in our carrot production. The aim of this study is to obtain technical data groups of workers and tasks related to hand-harvested vegetables, time consumptions, labor capacities, harvest costs etc. for orange carrots and to bring them into literature. The structure of the harvesting crew was made computable by a mathematical model. A carrot harvesting crew consists of 20 workers who perform different tasks one after the other and one sergeant organizing the workers. Such a crew can harvest 15-16 tonnes of product during the daily working time (approximately 9 hours). The labor cost is determined as 175 TL da-1 and the fuel cost is 2.5 L da-