Sığır Besiciliği İşletmelerinin Başarısızlığında Etkili Faktörlerin Analizi Erzurum İli Örneği

Although livestock has an important potential in Erzurum, return from cattle

fattening and productivity is very low. This study evaIuates the factors causing failures

of cattle fattening farms in Erzurum based on previous studies in different disciplines

and the survey data collected in this study. The main problem levels were determined by

using descriptive analysis to primarily data collected from research area in 2002 years.

According to the results of the study, factors affecting on the failure of cattle fattening

farms which were under investigation were overuse of labor, poor material quality, fattening period, which is lower for young animals but longer period for older animals, having low level of protein and energy in feeding material, primitive and non hygienic of

bams and lack of information on breeding techniques. The factors that affect the profitable cattle fattening negatively must be eliminated in order to have profitable cattle fattening.