Applied Incentive Policies in Animal Agriculture Investments of Turkey

Agricultural production has been maintained by numerous small enterprises either on animal or crop production İn Turkey. The majority of livestock population are consisted of low productive İndigenous breeds. Only 32 per cent of cattle population and 5 per cent of sheep population are made of improved breeds and thelr crosses. Demand for the animal origined food is İncreasing in respect to population increases and changing of eating behaviour of the people. Foreign trade of livestock and animal products are showtng negative progress in recent years. The most efficient way to meet this increased demand seems to increase the productivity of the livestock per capita.

Animal production enterprises are seriously effected by incentive precautions. Analised results between 1983 to 1992 showed that the most effectively used incentive precautions for animal production sector between 1989 to 1990 are only the small part of total invesment cost as 9.9 %. However this ratio has been changed between 0.5 % to 4.3 % for the rest of the analysed years.

İt can be concluded that applied Incentive precautlons are not at the needed level to make obligatory structural changes In animal production In the country. Keywords :