270 e-ISSN: 2602-4381 International Journal of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences Research Article www.ijafls.org Int J Agric For Life Sci 3(2): 270-278(2019) An assessment of livestock breeding and livestock production in turkey Rahmiye Figen Ceylan 1 , Metin Göksel Akpınar 2 , Çağrı Bayraktar 3 , Duygu Bayraktar 3 , Esra Mülazimoğullari 3 1 Assistant Prof (PhD)*, Akdeniz University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics, Antalya, Turkey 2 Associate Prof, Akdeniz University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics, Antalya, Turkey 3 MSc student, Akdeniz University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics, Antalya, Turkey *Corresponding author: figenceylan@akdeniz.edu.tr Abstract Human nutrition should be composed of a balanced daily intake of glutens, vitamins and proteins. In contrast to gluten and vitamins, proteins can be retrieved only from animal based products. Accordingly, bovine breeding and poultry are important to secure protein requirements of societies. With changing climatic conditions and declining interest to maintain livestock breeding, the supply has been in declination recently which corresponded to rising consumer prices in Turkey. Within this study, it was aimed to measure the impact of prices of animals per head and changing milked or slaughtered animal stocks on the supply of main outputs of animal breeding, milk and meat. The findings of supply response analyses of meat and milk supplies for the years between 2001 and 2017 indicated that price mostly affects supply in the long term as the breeder can change the aim of animal holding. Yet, short term impact is also visible, despite being lower. However, the analyses showed us that most of the fluctuation in supplies is related with non-price factors. Analysis interrelated with sector supports and international trade is essential for proper inferences specifically for milk supplies. This is related with the input characteristics of milk and meat for the food industry. Keywords: livestock breeding, milk, meat, producer, supply response, Nerlove, Turkey Received: 23.08.2019 Accepted: 08.10.2019 Published (online): 10.11.2019 Introduction and Objective of the Study Breeding and slaughter of animals and producing animal based products are important both for the health of the society and economic sustainability. Livestock breeding is essential in maintenance of balanced diet of livelihoods, assuring economic wealth of animal breeders increasing national income via meat, milk, textiles and pharmaceutical sectors. Providing inputs to these sectors is important for agriculture based industrialisation and assisting economic growth and development via reducing imports and increasing exports. Besides, with its high value added, livestock breeding is important to keep rural population in the rural areas and reducing unemployment both in urban and rural areas as well (Simsek, 2018; Saygin and Demirbas, 2017; Karagoz, 2009). Turning back to adequate and balanced diet requirement, people need to consume protein-based products to maintain a good diet. Animal-based products are the only source of proteins. To consider the situation of Turkish consumers, protein intake of livelihoods in comparison with other parts of the world should be noted. As demonstrated in Table 1 with reference to 2013 figures (Anonymous, 2019a), share of animal based protein intake in Turkey was lower than the world average and only higher than the African countries. However, the total amount of protein intake is almost 30 % more of the world average in grams. Yet, this is a sign of vegetative protein intake, which does not promise a balanced diet. Considering the climatic effects and lack of intention to deal with livestock breeding, there appeared declination in number of animals, which brought reduction in production and consumption of animal based products in Turkey (Semerci and Celik, 2018). This mainly affected the sector from 1994 to 2009. Cite this artile as: Ceylan, R.F., Akpinar, M.G., Bayraktar, Ç., Bayraktar, D. and Mulazımogullari, E. 2019. An assessment of livestock breeding and livestock production in turkey. Int. J. Agric. For. Life Sci., 3(2): 270- 278. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.