TURKISH AGRI.NEWS

Butchers Federation of Turkey Vice Chairman Osman Yardımcı said that the flesh of sacrificials needs to disassemble through the hands of experts, so 15 percent of the sacrificial meat is going to waste every year. This means that thousands of animals." Yardımcı said: "Unexperinced and novice butchers are on the streets every Feast of Qurban. Unfortunately our citizens favour with such people on the first day of the Feast in order to be able to go out of the city. But our Federation has taken all the measures, we are ready for slaughtering during the Feast days."   Yardımcı also stated: "The best thing to do is to make use of slaughterhouses of municipalities. As a matter of fact we have provided veterinarians and skilled butchers under the service of our citizens." Pointing out that meat should not be wasted during the Feast, "When one kg of meat perish makes 50 liras. This is a national fortune and a pity. Novices are shredding the sk...

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...