Financial Analysis of the Cultivation of GreenhoUse Products in Tehran Province

Production of greenhouse products shows increasing growth in recent years in Iran because of restriction in water resources. Tehran province occupied third place among all provinces of the country from the viewpoint of production and cultivated area of greenhouse products. Therefore, this study aims to investigate cost- benefit of greenhouse cucumber, tomato and green chili production and determination of economic optimum size of mentioned greenhouses in Tehran province. For this purpose, Cost- Benefit analysis applied. The necessary data for this study collected through completion of questionnaire from 70 greenhouse cucumber, tomato and green chili producers in Tehran province, which were selected by stratified cluster sampling method. The results showed that production of greenhouse products in Tehran province are without economic justification in greenhouse size less than 2500 square meter. Meanwhile, economic optimum size for greenhouses of these products is 8000-10000 square meter in Tehran.