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The purpose of this study is to exhibit the efficiency and productivity of the both publicly and privately owned sugar factories in Turkey between the years 2018-2020. The production efficiency of the sugar industry and its total factor productivity are analyzed via the Critic and Eatwios methods. The results obtained show that while the most significant input variable is the number of temporary workers for all years spanned, the factors with the least explanatory power are the number of permanent workers for 2018 and the amount of beet processed for the remaining years. The CRITIC scores of output variables also vary within time, and while pulp remains the most significant variable in the model, the amount of sugar produced and molasses are found to have the least significant explanatory power for the first and the remaining years, respectively. Following the determination of the levels of significance of variables via the CRITIC technique, the efficiency levels of companies are calculated by using EATWIOS, where it is put forward that while the factory coded O6 ranks the first among the sample for all years spanned, Ereğli ranks second, and the company with the lowest productivity level is Erciş Sugar Factory. When this analysis is partitioned vis-a-vis their time series trends, it is found out that while Ereğli ranks second in 2018 and 2020, Ilgın is the runner-up to O6in the year 2019.

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