Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Custos e Agronegocio, cilt.17, sa.1, ss.375-394, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
The purpose of this study was to determine cost, profitability, economic and technical efficiency of cattle fattening enterprises in Turkey. The enterprises were divided into 3 groups according to the number of fattening cattle. The average labor force and land use were 3,06 person and 43,49 da. The average fattening period, total live weight gain per cattle, daily live weight gain, hot carcass weight and carcass yield were 251,8 days, 250 kg, 1002 g, 311 kg and 60,3% for the technical efficieny, respectively. The average gross production value, gross income, total operation cost, variable cost rate in total cost and fixed cost rate in total cost were 86 947, 101 168, 54 867 USD, 74,25% and 25,75%, respectively. The average production costs of per fattening cattle, per kg beef carcass, beef carcass sale price including support, net incomes of per fattening cattle and per kg carcass were 1 451 and 4,71, 5,64, 291 and 0,93 USD. While the marketing problem, skilled worker employment problem, feed price, long slaughtering date for animal cutting, import decision of live cattle and carcass, high interest rate of bank loan, and fattening cattle purchase price were determined as factors that negatively affect on the economic efficiency of enterprises, carcass sale price, capital amount, government subsidies, eligible loans to cattle fattening and capacity of cattle barn were determined as factors that positively affect. The results showed that foreign labor use, property and rental land use, technical efficiency, per kg live weight cost, per kg carcass sale price, net profit per cattle and per kg carcass were higher in large-scale enterprises, whereas family labor use, production costs of per cattle per kg carcass were lower than other group enterprises.