Comparative input analysis of greenhouse vegetables [Sera Sebzelerinin Karşi{dotless}laşti{dotless}rmali{dotless} Girdi Analizi]

In recent years, consumers' reliable food consuming demand makes the use of non-hazardous inputs and production technologies for human health and the environment unavoidable. Nowadays, the production in greenhouses is being as dependent upon ecological conditions and some efficiency and quality losses in production are occurring because of the dependency. Because greenhouses are intensive agricultural lands, synthetic chemicals are used intensively to reduce the losses in product. These substances, which make environmental pollution, harm natural balance and threaten human health, are plant growth regulators (hormones), commercial (chemical) fertilizers, and pesticides. The objective of this research was to analyze the producers', who produce greenhouse vegetables in Antalya, Mersin, Mugla, and İzmir, use of input (fertilizer, pesticide, hormone, labor, seed-seedling etc). For this purpose, the current input usage levels of 204 growers, who have been included in the extent of the research by random sampling, was examined