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A Survey research was carried out in 378 enterprises in order to obtain information about socio-economic situations of the cattle farms established in Hınıs district of Erzurum province in this study. It was revealed that owners of the enterprises were generally within a range between 31 and 40 years old. It was a streaking result that 95.5% of the owners of the enterprises was capable of the reading and writing, but 70.0% of these farmers left from primary school before the graduation. It was also found out that owners of the cattle enterprises generally had experience with their job between 11 and 20 years, and they had families mostly consisting of 6 individuals. Number of people dealing with animals excluding owner of the enterprise was maximum 1-4 persons, and the people were generally from their families. Percentages of foreign workers were fairly low (2.5%). Only 12% of the enterprises was member of any association. The enterprises preferred mostly crossbred cattle (77.2%) and they indicated that the reason of their preference is due to their habits. Educational and training activities in Hınıs district should be executed in order to solve the problems as well as the low education level and not being a member in an association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Alinteri Journal of Agriculture Sciences is the property of Ataturk University, Faculty of Agriculture and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

A Survey research was carried out in 378 enterprises in order to obtain information about socio-economic situations of the cattle farms established in Hinis district of Erzurum province in this study. It was revealed that owners of the enterprises were generally within a range between 31 and 40 years old. It was a streaking result that 95.5% of the owners of the enterprises was capable of the reading and writing, but 70.0% of these farmers left from primary school before the graduation. It was also found out that owners of the cattle enterprises generally had experience with their job between 11 and 20 years, and they had families mostly consisting of 6 individuals. Number of people dealing with animals excluding owner of the enterprise was maximum 1-4 persons, and the people were generally from their families. Percentages of foreign workers were fairly low (2.5%). Only 12% of the enterprises was member of any association. The enterprises preferred mostly crossbred cattle (77.2%) and they indicated that the reason of their preference is due to their habits. Educational and training activities in Hinis district should be executed in order to solve the problems as well as the low education level and not being a member in an association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, problems of the livestock production of Erzurum and suggestions of the solution for improvement of the cattle husbandry were presented, after investigation of the current situation of cattle rearing in Erzurum and Turkey. Total cattle available in Erzurum province was composed of crossbreds (78.51 %), European cattle breeds (11.39 %) and native cattle breeds (9.92 %). 4.6 % of the total number of the cattle in Turkey is Contribution ratio of the total number of cattle in Erzurum to number of these in Turkey is 4.6 %. Contribution of Erzurum Province to Turkey in terms of number of milking cows and total milk production were 4.5 % and 4.3 % respectively. Average milk yield per animal in Erzurum province was 4.2 % lower than mean milk production per cow in Turkey. Average carcass weight of cattle in Erzurum is 31.4 % lower than average of Turkey. To achieve better and more profitable livestock production in Erzurum Province, production of roughage and concentrate feeds has to be increased, and commercial cattle breeding has to be encouraged, and herdsman’s occupation has to be more attractive. In order to make more profitable productions of beef and milk, appropriate ratio of milk/feed has to realized, and training for the cattle breeders has to given by the current cattle breeding associations about cattle nutrition and rearing, and projects have to be made for processing, packaging, marketing as well as export of beef and milk, breeding animals has to be reared for sale purpose, EU standards for animal health and welfare has to be followed, and old as well as useless barn buildings have to be reconstructed and their plans have to be modernized and renewed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]