Türkiye V. Tarım Ekonomisi Kongresi, Erzurum, Türkiye, 18 - 20 Eylül 2002
Horasan, Oltu, Pasinler Towns and Erzurum’s Central District Villages, which include 66.60% fattening cattle and 59,25% of farms which deal with cattle fattening in the whole province, were chosen by Objective Sampling Method and cattle fattening farms had been chosen by Simple Random Sampling Method according to their cattle numbers. Farms in local area were classified into four groups by taken into consideration the data of fattening period from 2000 to 2001 of 129 farms, which are under investigation, were subjected to cost analysis and input determining. The effective inputs on fattening activities and cost in the farms under investigation, according to the farms’ average, were calculated. The average fattening period was calculated to be 204.53 days in old animals and 185.81 days in young animals while labor factor is 3.64 Man Work Unit (MWU), fattening cattle numbers 19.92 Cattle Animal Unit (CAU), the amount of daily ration given to animals is 17.43 kg and concentrate feed rate in ration is 44.46%. According to the averages of farms, while the shares which are taken from production costs by variable and fixed costs are 69.53% and 30.47%, the share taken from variable costs by feed cost is 24.76%. The meat cost per kg live weight was analyzed, according to I., II., III., IV. group farms and the average of farms, as 2.87, 2.71, 2.96, 1.87 and 2.50 million TL. On the other hand the incremental meat cost per kg live weight was calculated as 4.94 million TL in the first group farms, 4.43 million TL in the second group farms, 5.46 million TL in the third group farms, 2.71 million TL in the fourth group farms and 4.28 million TL farms average.