TURKISH AGRI.NEWS

Press release... April 20, 2020, Ankara While the problems experienced in livestock in our country continue increasingly, due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the possibilities of imports in both crops and livestock have been limited and even if we have money, now such a situation exists that it cannot be bought from outside. Although the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry officials declare that there is enough livestock, still Turkey's animal deficit will be met with the imports. Meanwhile breeders are increasingly trying to survive despite the ever-rising cost of inputs by fighting in more difficult conditions. The main problem in animal husbandry is that feed input costs are very high. The first reason for this is that 70 percent of feed raw materials are covered by imports. The second reason is that the production planning and support amount of feed raw materials and feed crops are insufficient. Therefore animal husbandry is going back further in our country due to the fa...

This is a summary of the report prepared by Chamber of Agricultural Engineers (ZMO) just before the Feast of Qurban in Turkey... · Officially in Turkey's history, firstly in 2010 and then 2011, 2017 and 2018 sacrificials were imported. · In 2018, 866 thousand cattle and 2 million 682 thousand sheep were slaughtered. · The number of cattle slaughtered during the Feast of Sacrifice is approximately four months and the number of sheep slaughtered in one and a half years. · Around 10 million animals are slaughtered annually and our red meat production is over 1 million tons. 55 percent of the slaughtered animals are sheep, 14 percent are goats and 31 percent are cattle. · If it is accepted that all production is consumed, our red meat consumption per person is 13.84 kg. This amount does not include 4-5 million refugees. · While the year of 1960 was taken as an indicator, there has been a 13 percent decrease in the total number of animals. · The number of goats in 196...