مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Current Situation, Problems and Suggestions for Forage Crops in Iğdır Province

Abstract :

Agriculture maintains its importance in the feeding of increasing population, supplying raw material to industry, foreign trade and employing a significant proportion of working population. As in all Turkey, a considerable part of the population of Iğdır province earns their livings by animal and plant production. The most essential feed group in animal production is forage. The quality roughage is obtained from pasture and rangeland and feed crop agriculture. At present, the dry hay amount provided from grasslands and feed crops are 73 286 t and 142 172 t, respectively. However, there are 91.304 animals in Iğdır. 333 260 t of quality dry hay per year is required only to meet requirement hay of available animal for their living, but quality hay production is 215 458 t. Thus, the quality roughage gap is 35,35%. With this aim, it could be appropriate to feature polycultural cultivation instead of monocultural cultivation system by establishing feed crops in the production design. Therefore, not only the share of feed crops in agricultural fields will be increase, but also the suitable improvement and management techniques will be applied, by which grazing pressure on pastures and rangelands will be lessened. In addition, subsidies to increase field and yield of feed crops cultivation should be continued increasing and diversifying. Seed problem must be solved in feed crops. Farmers must be informed about feed crops cultivation and important of feed crops for animal feeding.