مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Effects of Agricultural Supports on Forage Crops of Cultivation Area and Amount of Production in EskiĢehir Province

Abstract :

Beside significant effect on decreasing the cost of feeding animals, producing their own forage crops will provide positive physical and chemical outcomes to land that they have planted. Because of that positive effects, cultivation of forage crops are supported in Turkish farming regulations among with many countries. It is the fact that, the effects of change in supportive methods and amounts of that supports will start at individual farmer level and regional level it will continue to country level effects. In order to apply new forage crops support methods for farmers it is important to determine and understand the effects of these farmers and country based changes in future. In this study, the impacts of these supports on amount of crops that produce in Eskişehir, between 2000 and 2016 is analyzed and calculated. In these calculations it is stated that in 2015 the amount of rangeland based hay is about 100 000 t., the amount of hay produced from the field area is 205 798 t. However, there are 138 077 animal unit (AU) in 2015 in Eskişehir and 724 473 t. hay is required for livestock per year to meet their maintenance needs. Derived from these information, there is shortage of high quality hay in the amount of to 418 675 t. and this gap is filled through field crop residues. Compared to last ten years in Eskişehir forage crop cultivation areas have raised 49 % from 10 500 ha to 15 664 ha. Production have raised 79 % from 115 817 t. to 205 798 t. On the contrary, amount of forage crops supplies have decreased with 5.28 % real prices in 2015. When considering recent year’s results, besides the changes in the rate of supports, continuity of supporting the policy is more effective than quantity of these supports on farm level. Therefore; continuity of these policies are causing on promote cultivation area and quantity of forage crops.