Resource Demand and Product Supply Function for Tomato Production Farms in Nineveh Governorate for the 2023 Agricultural Season
Abstract
The tomato crop is an important and major vegetable crop on the Iraqi table, And his entry into a lot of food industries like tomato paste and some other products, Among them, the research aimed to derive the resource demand function and the output supply function of the production function and identify the optimal resource combinations of tomato farmers in the bath of Al-Alil for the 2023 agricultural season as one of the cultivation areas of this crop in Nineveh. The production function was estimated as Cobb-Douglas type and in the long term as optimal amounts of maximized profit resources were achieved and compared to actual reality. Among them was derived output display function and resource demand function, Through data collected by a questionnaire form prepared for this purpose for a random sample of 31 farms produced, It accounted for 40% of the study community, and one of the most important findings of the research was that the volume of the maximum production of profits was 15,634 kg/dunum, and profits reached (3544937) dinars/dunums compared to the actual production of 12,799 kg/dunums and profits (2269187) dinars/dunums,, in the light of these findings the study recommends tomato farmers to use optimal amounts of maximized profit resources in order to increase their profits.





