efficiency of sugar beet producers in west azarbaijan

west azerbaijan province is the major producer of sugar beet in iran. to reach the goals ‎of self-sufficiency in the country and competitiveness in the market, increasing the production ‎of sugar beet in this province through enhancing the efficiency of producers could have an ‎important contribution. the purpose of this research was to measure the efficiency of sugar ‎beet producers in west azerbaijan. by selecting a random sample of sugar beet producers in ‎this province, interviewing, and the questionnaire, the necessary data was collected. to measure ‎the efficiency of sample producers, frontier stochastic parametric approach was used. the ‎results showed that mean efficiency of sample sugar beet producers was 69.5 percent, which ‎ranged from 15.9 to 100 percent. the results indicate that with the available resources and ‎technology there is a high potential to increase sugar beet production in the province. to ‎determine policy measures for enhancing the efficiency of sugar beet producers there is a need ‎for more detailed study, especially on the factors influencing the efficiencies.‎