Investigation of the technical and structural aspects of cattle barns and greenhouses in adiyaman province

As in the world, the importance of the agricultural sector in our country is great. In our country, a significant portion of the population lives in rural areas and provides livelihood with agricultural production. Therefore, adequate and balanced nutrition of the population living in our country will be ensured only through regular agricultural production. This will only be possible by increasing plant production and animal production. For this, under cover agriculture and animal husbandry sector needs to be developed. With the development to be made in these fields, raw materials will be provided to many industrial branches such as food, textile, medicine and cosmetics. This will lead to an increase in national income and employment and thus will make a major contribution to the national economy. In this study, it was aimed to determine current status and problems in terms of technical and structural conditions of plant production structures in Adıyaman city center and its districts, in the GAP region. The construction materials used in the greenhouses, the dimensions of the structural elements, the levels of automation and mechanization, the product design and the problems faced by the manufacturers were determined. In the same way, it was determined the technical and structural conditions, automation and mechanization levels and problems of animal production structures such as cattle and solutions were proposed for the elimination of existing deficiencies. As a result of the study, it was found that 41.7% of dairy cattle barns had no roughage storage, 50% had no concentrated feed storage and 41.7% had no silage feed storage. It was observed that 25% of the existing enterprises do not have a manure storage and in the enterprises without a fertilizer store, the manure is stored in the open and uncontrolled. It was also found that 8.3% of the farms had no a milking unit, 41.7% had no heifer unit, 33.3% had no maternity unit, 75% had no calf unit and 50% had no sick animals unit. It was determined that 7,5% of beef cattle shelters had no roughage storage, 5% had no concentrated feed storage and 70% had no silage feed storage. As a result of the statistical analysis on beef cattle enterprises, a significant relationship was found between the construction years of cattle barns and needs to the renewal of barns or not. In addition between the number of animals in shelters and utilization status from government supporting programs such as credit, support and grants of business owners, and between the number of animals in farms and the presence or not of manure storage in the farms, a significant relationship was determined. iv All of the greenhouses were built by using the grants and credit facilities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and all greenhouses were built by a private company. In the majority of the greenhouses (91.7%) gothic roof type, the rest of them the arc roof type was used. In all greenhouses were used soft plastic (PE) and polycarbon (PC) cover materials with UV + IR + AF additive as cover material. The majority of greenhouse owners (92.7%) reported various problems in their greenhouses. The proportion of businesses with no complaints from their greenhouse was only determined as 8.3%.