The current situation of dairy cattle operations in Elazig, and the statistical analysis of their yield.

The Current Situation of Dairy Cattle Operations in Elazig, and The Statistical Analysis of Their Yield. Livestock is an important sector in Turkey just as it is all over the World. Cattle breeding is an important business line in terms of milk production and dairy products, because its activities involve dairy cattle. The purpose of this study is, to reveal the current situation of the dairy cattle operations in Elazig, to determine the productivity of the cattle, to deduce by overcoming the determined deficiencies and by correcting the faults in implementations, and to generate an important resource for the development of the dairy cattle business. 300 operations which are active in the dairy cattle business in the centrum city district and 10 districts, were determined with the simple random sampling method in the study which was materialized in cooperation with the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture at Elazig. A face-to-face poll of 46 question has been materialized with local breeders. The poll was divided into three parts which were the demographic and operational features of exploiters, farming-breeding-health, and support and organisation. The data obtained with the poll were analysed with percentage frequency, x- square, Correlation and fit analysis in the IBM SPSS 22 packet programme (Statistical software for Social Sciences), and these were analysed in respect of stats. The result of the statistical analyses was that variables like certain demographic peculiarities of exploiters, the feed which is used while feeding the cattle, the seeding situation, the cattle races preferred by exploiters, and the current number of cattle at the operations of breeders had effect on the milk yield (P<0,001, P<0,01, P<0,05). Especially with the fit analysis, a statistical relation was discovered between the lactation period of cattle and the depletion of cattle, and it became evident that this had an impact on the productivity fit analysis. Finally, it's been found out that the dairy cattle operations in Elazig consist of relatively little family-run business, and weren't able to progress. The instability of the feed and mil prices has to be removed, and activities related with cattle business have to be increased for enhancing productivity. Keywords: Elazig Province, Dairy Cattle Operations, Yield Properties