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The main goal of the research was an economic study of cotton crop production under the current conditions in Al-Hasakah Governorate, which represents the real reality of cotton crop production. It was carried out in the villages affiliated with the administrative regions and by a random sampling method and amounted to about 76 villages. A random sample of farmers was chosen, amounting to about 268 farmers, and collected Primary data were based on a questionnaire that included a set of questions necessary to implement the objectives of the study. The study relied on a systematic analysis of the total costs of this crop according to irrigation methods, and the Cobb-Douglas production function model was applied to estimate production efficiency and economic efficiency, and to derive the cost function for the cotton crop from the production function. A Likert scale was applied to prioritize production difficulties. The results of the analysis showed that the total costs of the cotton crop amounted to about 6737.2 and 7020.8 thousand SP/ha for the traditionally irrigated and drip irrigated respectively, and that the amount of increase in the value of revenues for the drip irrigated amounted to about 2756.7 thousand SP/ha compared to the traditionally irrigated, i.e. an increase of 12.2%, and the amount of increase in the net profit value of drip-irrigated cotton was about 3040.3 thousand SP/ha compared to traditionally irrigated cotton, i.e. an increase of 57%. The total elasticity coefficient was about (0.585), which is smaller than the correct one Which means that it is a function with decreasing productivity, meaning that production takes place in the second productive stage of the production function, and the coefficient of production elasticity reached about (0.295) and (0.29), for both fertilizers and the number of irrigations, respectively, and this means that increasing The amount of fertilizer by (10%) will lead to an increase in the yield per unit area by (2.95%). Likewise, increasing the number of irrigations by (10%) will lead to an increase in the yield per unit area by (2.9%). The most prominent problems facing Farmers’ problem of high costs of production processes ranked first, with a mean score of 2.843 and a standard deviation of 0.36. While the problem of lack of financing ranked last, the arithmetic mean reached 2.377 with a standard deviation of 1.46. The study recommends securing sufficient sources of financing that enable producers to increase the volume of investment in the cotton cultivation and production sector. And address the problems facing the production process of the cotton crop, and help in finding solutions to reduce the high production costs in light of the inflation that the country is currently witnessing, and the lack of economic balance and proportionality between production costs and the purchase price of the cotton crop by the government.
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