AN ESTIMATION OF COSTS FUNCTIONS AND SIZE ECONOMIES OF BABIL GOVERNORATE AS CASE STUDY

Abstract

The crop of Maize is considered one of the main significant crops and its importance lies in copanent of animal fodder , Maize grain contains more than 60% of its compent of high percentage of carbohydrate .also it one of flour compont prepared for humane consumption being contain a high percentage of food component ,as for the industrial importance centered in starch in dustry and exacting oils and also through international direction to extract fuel the biology fuel from seeds of corn ,the bio fuel from seeds of Co2 and reduce levels the of And the crops in Iraq and it occupies the fourth stage of it s importance and in Babil prorince it accupies the second stage after wheat and it is one of the strategic crops in the prorince. And it considered one of the crops that under went lot of problem led to decline .its production and heighten the cost of its production that wreaked achieving the economical effienciyin addition &absence of agricultural policy and agricultural plants and to pnamerous of poultry production ,the matter that cause new burden to farmers ,more over the rising of cost production that necessities a study and analysis of the cost function of this crop. It has been chosen a random sample from 163 ministries in Babil province included about 3% of the overall framers of the crop in the province by using a form of a questionnaire prepared for this purpose.