Abstract
Economic Analysis Of Cattle Fattening Farms In Suluova District Of Amasya Province
In this study, degrees of success, production costs and profitability °f cattle fattening farms in Suluova district of Amasya province have been determined. In addition, the factors affecting live weight gain have been determined. Data used in the study were collected from 141 cattle fattening farms by survey. The Method of Neyman was used in the determination of sample size. Farms were divided into four size groups as having less than 10 cattle (first group), between 11 and 30 cattle (second group), between 31 and 60 cattle (third group) and 61 and mare cattle (fourth group). Cattle fattening farms have 11,21 native breed, 9,45 cross-breed, and 21.79 culture breed cattles, and 0,46 water buffalo as average. For native breed cattles, live weight gain, fattening duration, daily live weight gain, and carcass weight were 205,39 kg, 271,27 day, 757,14 g, and 190,34 kg per cattle, respectively. The same figures were 217,32kg,
250,98 day, 865,89 g, and 201,01 kg per cattle for cross-breed cattles. Culture breed cattles have 288,46 kg live weight gain, 273,26 day fattening duration, 1055,62 g daily live weight gain, and 293,58 kg carcass weight. The same figures were 235,13 kg, 255,00 day, 922.08 g, and 269,23 kg for water buffalo. Animal material and feed have the highest ratios within the production costs. For 1 kg live weight gain, the amount of feed consumed by native breed, cross-breed, culture breed cattles, and water buffalo are 9,107 kg, 8,613 kg, 7,672 kg and 9,663 kg, respectively. The bulk of cattles fattening were 1-2 years old, and obtained from outside of province. The majority of cattle fattening farms have used credits for their financial necessities. Cattle fattening farms face the most important problems during taking input and marketing stage. As a result of econometric analysis, it has been found that the most important factors affecting live weight gain are initial live weights of cattles, amount of forage consumption, fattening duration, stable capacity and labour. According to degrees of success, it has been found that 17.02% of farms were non-successfiil, 74,47% medium successfull and 8.51% head successful.
Keywords
Economic Analysis Fattening Duration Live Weight Gain, Cost of Live Weight Cost of Live Weight G
