An Assessment of Beef Market in Turkey: Current Status and Future Prospects

Authors : Nevra Alhas Eroğlu, Mehmet Bozoğlu

Pages : 253-265

Doi:10.61513/tead.1176269

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Publication Date : 2023-12-27

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :Although beef production has substantially increased in the last two decades in Turkey, market balance could not be realized and price of beef have perpetually increased. Self-sufficiency of the country could not be achieved yet in spite of domestic supports and import protection on cattle sector. The objective of this review was to assess the developments in Turkish beef market in terms of production, prices, import and support policies since 2000. The material of this study is related literature, official documents and time series data for beef market. The results of this review indicated that beef production has increased in Turkey in the last two decades and the share of beef in total read meat production has increased from 63% to 78.3%. Although the government has granted some supports in order to lessen the high production costs such as breeding material and feed, high costs and price rises in beef production couldn’t be prevented. Besides, the beef-milk parity highlighted that profitability of dairy farming has lessened in contrast to beef breeding and the producers would confront breeding material problem in the long run. Livestock supports should be revised in order to encourage mixed type of production and unionization should be improved to alleviate costs and enhance marketing channels.
Keywords : Sığır eti, Üretim, Parite, Dış ticaret, Türkiye