1	Course Title:	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ECONOMICS AND RESOURCE USE IN AGRICULTURE
2	Course Code:	TRE5435
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Second Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	1
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	7,5
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. Tolga TİPİ
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	ttipi@uludag.edu.tr, Tel:0 (224) 2941590 U.Ü. Ziraat Fakültesi Tarım Ekonomisi Bölümü Görükle/Bursa
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	The objective of this course is to enable the students to learn obtaining various production functions and to provide efficient resource use with the skills for interpreting these functions
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	Students can determine the resource use efficiency of farms.

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Comprehending factor-product relationships; 2 Becoming able to collect and to interpret the data related to factor-product relationships; 3 Becoming able to interpret technical researches economically; 4 The ability to guide farmers about effecient resource use; 5 Becoming able to use mathematical technics for determining factor-product relationships;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Definition of the course
2	Basis of the production economics
3	Factor-product relationships
4	Data collecting for factor-product relationships
5	Defining production function, application areas, classical production function, basic concepts
6	Types of production functions
7	Selection of appropriate function
8	Production function applications in crop production
9	Production function applications in crop production
10	Production function applications in animal production
11	Production function applications in animal production
12	Economic interpretations of Production functions
13	Resource use efficiency
14	Homework presantation

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	1.Doll, J.P., Orazem, F., 1984. “Production Economics, Theory with Applications”, Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2.Debertin, D.L., 1986. “Agricultural Production Economics”, Macmillan Inc. 3.Dillon, J.L., Anderson, J.R., 1990. “The Analysis of Response in Crop and Livestock Production”, Pergamon Press. 4.Upton, M., 1979. Agricultural Production Economics and Resource –use, Oxford University Press. 5.Heady, E.O., Dillon, J.L., 1961. Agricultural Production Functions, Iowa State University Press,Ames, Iowa. 6.Rehber, E., Tipi, T., 2016. Farm Management and Planning (Tarımsal İşletmecilik ve Planlama), Ekin Publishing, Bursa. (In Turkish)
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	0	0
Quiz	1	10
Homeworks, Performances	1	20
Final Exam	1	70
Total	3	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		30
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		70
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	During the semester, students will be responsible project tasks. Besides, a final exam with open-ended questions will be conducted at the end of the semester.
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	3	42
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	14	2	28
Homeworks, Performances	1	20	20
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	1	50	50
Midtermexams	0	0	0
Others	1	30	30
Final Exams	1	50	50
Total WorkLoad			220
Total workload/ 30 hr			7,33
ECTS Credit of the Course			7,5

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12 LO1 2 0 3 4 4 4 1 0 0 1 1 0 LO2 1 0 2 4 3 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 LO3 0 0 4 4 3 4 3 0 2 0 0 0 LO4 0 0 0 5 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO5 2 0 3 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High