Yakup Erdal Ertürk

Igdir Üniversitesi · Ziraat Fakültesi Tarım Ekonomisi Bölümü

Olive has been considered a divine tree in the Mediterranean region since ancient times. The tree is vulnerable to weed presence on the early growth stage, and they cause many adverse impacts on the olive tree, including wildfire, but it was ignored by growers during the youth infertility in many times. Edremit district provides the most suitable g...

In this study, 1961–2015 period FAOSTAT data of banana harvest area and production in Turkey was modeled with the objective to forecast banana harvest area and production for the 2016–2025 period. Stationarity was provided with taking the first difference of the time series. Several Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA (0,1,1), ARIMA (1,...

This study was conducted on indigenous Morkaraman breed and Romanov × Morkaraman F1 Crossbreed sheep reared under semi-intensive conditions in order to determine the influence of dam age, genotype, birth weight, year, sex and birth type at lambing, weaning weight, weaning age, grazing period and weight at the end of the grazing period on pasture re...

This study was conducted on indigenous Morkaraman breed and Romanov × Morkaraman F1 Crossbreed sheep reared under semi-intensive conditions in order to determine the influence of dam age, genotype, birth weight, year, sex and birth type at lambing, weaning weight, weaning age, grazing period and weight at the end of the grazing period on pasture re...

This study was conducted to define vital factors on final fattening live weight (FFW) on cultural beef cattle enterprises from Eastern region of Turkey. Predictive performances of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) and Chi-Square Interaction Detector (CHAID) were evaluated comparatively in the definition of significant factors and inte...

The aim of this study was to develop a honey production model for 180 beekeeping enterprises at Agri, Kars and Erzurum provinces of Turkey and to identify factors affecting honey production through CART, CHAID and MARS data mining algorithms, which are more flexible compared to classical approaches. Several potential predictors in the survey were a...

This paper deals with describing several influential factors that have significant impact on final fattening weight (FFW) as an output variable at domestic beef cattle enterprises from the Eastern part of Turkey. Multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) as a non-parametric analysis technique was preferred in the description of the influentia...

The main aim of the present work was to determine potential factors that influence average fattening final live weight (AFFLW) per enterprise for crossbred cattle reared in beef cattle enterprises in North East Anatolia region (comprising Erzurum, Igdir, Kars and Agri provinces) of Turkey. For this goal, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MA...

In this study, it was aimed at applying robust factor analysis for an ordinal five-point likert scale data obtained via a questionnaire applied to 385 consumers selected via simple sampling method in Igdir province located in Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. As a factor extraction method, Robust Unweighted Least Squares (RULS) was specified toget...

The goal of the present study was to compare the predictive performance of three data mining algorithms viz., CHAID, Exhaustive CHAID, and CART implemented in the estimation of cold carcass weight (CCW) and body weight (BW) from several body measurements (withers height (WH), chest depth (CD), body length (BL), hearth girth (HG) and leg circumferen...

The objective of this study was to compare statistical performances of CHAID and MARS data mining algorithms in establishing live body weight by some morphological measurements (withers height, body length, chest girth, face length, face width, tail length and ear length) measured easily from 304 indigenous Mengali sheep at 2 yr of age and to deter...

Binlerce yıldır süren Türk Tarihi boyunca at ve koyunun yanısıra deve de önemli bir hayvan idi. Arkeolojik kanıtlara göre Türkler arasında deve güreşlerinin en azından 4.000 yıllık geçmişi vardır. Rusya Cumhuriyeti'ne bağlı Hakasya Cumhuriyeti'nin Sulekskay, Margiana'da bulunan deve güreşini gösteren bir taş tılsım en azından M.Ö. 2.000 yılına tari...

Located at the boundaries of Europe and Asia, Turkey is home to an extraordinary variety of domestic animal species and breeds that include bees, camels, cats, cattle, dogs, domestic fowl, donkeys, ducks, goats, geese, horses, mules, pigs, rabbits, sheep, silkworms, water buffalo and several species of domestic birds (partridge, pheasant, pigeon an...

Honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) provides honey and honey products which contribute to a healthy diet to human. Honey bees are common live social insects which are called as colony. They provide 85% of pollination among whole pollination of the World. From this side honey bees are crucial for maintaining of nature life. Anatolia which is Asian part of...

According to data of 2015, 37.544 tons of apricot are produced from 211.390 fruit bear-ing trees in an area of approximately 27.126 da in the province of Iğdır. Yield per decare is 178 kg. About 2%of total amount of apricot produced in Turkey is produced in Iğdır. 85% of apricots cultivated in Iğdır is Şalak (Aprikoz) cultivar, the remaining 15% co...

The study was conducted to determine the satisfaction of agricultural cooperative members, the relationship between the demographic characteristics of the members and their viewpoints on being important members of agricultural cooperatives in Igdir province. The survey data were obtained from 133 members selected randomly from 3726 cooperative memb...

The purpose of this study is to determine the demographic properties, unemployment anxieties and related plans of the students from Agricultural Economics Department of Agricultural Faculty of Igdır University. For this reason, primary data from face to face questionnaires with 141 students chosen with complete inventory method from Agricultural Ec...

The purpose of this study is to determine the demographic properties, unemployment anxieties and related plans of the students from Agricultural Economics Department of Agricultural Faculty of Igdır University. For this reason, primary data from face to face questionnaires with 141 students chosen with complete inventory method from Agricultural Ec...

zet: Badem (Prunus amygdalus L.) Türkiye'de, üzerinde en çok seleksiyon çalışması yapılan meyve türlerinden biridir. Badem genetik varyasyonu konusunda ülkemizin zenginliği, kısa bir süre içinde ıslah çalışmalarında başarı için olanak sağlamıştır. Türkiye'nin birçok bölgesinde badem yetiştirildiği için yörelere uygun çeşitlerin geliştirilmesi son d...

The goal of the current investigation was to predict the fleece weight from some physical wool characteristics of Akkaraman (47 heads) and Awassi ewes (108 heads) by using CHAID algorithm to obtain more flexible prediction through tree-based decision. All of the ewes were 2 years of age. The wool characteristics evaluated for the study were fleece...

According to 2015 data of TSI, totally 24.318 tons of apple are produced from 214.735 fruit bearing trees in the area of about 21.514 da in the province of Iğdır. Mean yield per tree is 114 kg when weighed average of all cultivars is taken. Apples cultivated in Iğdır consist of Golden, Starking, Amasya, and Granny Smith cultivars. According to data...

Almond (Prunus amygdalus L.) is one of the most investigated fruit species in selection studies in Turkey. The richness of our country on genetic variation of almond have provided facility for achievement in breeding studies in a short period of time. Because almond is cultivated in many regions of Turkey, it is very important to develop varieties...

Binlerce yıllık Türk Tarihi boyunca develer Türklerin hayatında her zaman önemli olmuştur. Tarihte develer ulaşım, yük taşıma, binek, savaşma, beslenme ve gıda amaçlı olarak kullanılmışlardır. 20. yüzyıldaki gelişme ve modernleşmeden sonra develer önemini kaybetmiş ve sadece bir spor ve turizm aracı olmuştur. Bu nedenle deve popülasyonun sayısı 200...

During thousands of years of Turkish History, camels were always important in their life. In the past camels were used as transport, pack, ride, war, food, and sport animal by Turks. After industrialization and modernization since 20th century, camel lost their importance and nowadays they are only a sport and tourism material in Turkey. Hence the...

During thousands of years of Turkish History, camels were always important in their life. In the past camels were used as transport, pack, ride, war, food, and sport animal by Turks. After industrialization and modernization since 20th century, camel lost their importance and nowadays they are only a sport and tourism material in Turkey. Hence the...

During thousands of years of Turkish History, camels were always important in their life. In the past camels were used as transport, pack, ride, war, food, and sport animal by Turks. After industrialization and modernization since 20th century, camel lost their importance and nowadays they are only a sport and tourism material in Turkey. Hence the...

During thousands of years of Turkish History, camels were always important in their life. In the past camels were used as transport, pack, ride, war, food, and sport animal by Turks. After industrialization and modernization since 20 th century, camel lost their importance and nowadays they are only a sport and tourism material in Turkey. Hence the...

Bursa was the important city where silkworm egg and cocoon were produced; silk and velvet were woven by hand and exported to the Europe in the period of Ottoman Empire. Since silkworm was brought to Anatolia, Bursa sustains its importance in this sector. Sericulture has begun at the same period in Amasya that is one of the Ottoman cities. Silks cam...

Livestock is essential for both human nutrition and agricultural industries. Hence, governments often apply some support policies in order to develop profitable livestock husbandry and better life. Although the governments applied some statist support policies until 1980, some public support policies have started to be applied after this year. A Su...

According to oldest records the first time silkworm was cultivated and silk was obtained from cocoonat China. Silkworm eggs and mulberry seeds was brought to Istanbul illegally the year 552 at age of Byzantine Empire although China kept it as a secret. It started to spread Marmara region especially Bursa and It's neighbourhood. Then it was spreaded...

Livestock is essential for both human nutrition and agricultural industries. Hence, governments often apply some support policies in order to develop profitable livestock husbandry and better life. Although the governments applied some statist support policies until 1980, some public support policies have started to be applied after this year. A Su...

The Sarıgöl District of the Manisa Province is one of the main grape producing areas of Turkey. A survey was carried out in grape producing 373 enterprises in the district. Weeds and weed control practices were determined face to face discussions with producers. There are very diverse weed speices including perenneial grass weeds such as Sorghum ha...

The purpose of this paper to review native cat breeds of Turkey. Turkey is like a bridge between Europe and Asia. Hence there are a large amount of livestock animal breeds including in species of bee, camel, cat, cattle, dog, donkey, duck, goat, goose, hen, horse, mule, partridge, ostrich, pheasant, pig, pigeon, rabbit, sheep, silkworm, turkey, and...

Question and methods: This presentation covers one out of four main components of a comprehensive survey study which was conducted using face to face discussions with randomly selected 373 grape producers from the Sarıgöl District of the Manisa Province in Turkey out of 5800 enterprises in September-December 2014. Questions were included personal d...

During thousands of years of Turkish History, camels were always important in their life. In the past camels were used as transport, pack, ride, war, food, and sport animal by Turks. After industrialization and modernization since 20 th century, camel lost their importance and nowadays they are only a sport and tourism material in Turkey.

During thousands of years of Turkish History, camels were always important in their life. In the past camels were used as transport, pack, ride, war, food, and sport animal by Turks. After industrialization and modernization since 20th century, camel lost their importance and nowadays they are only a sport and tourism material in Turkey. Hence the...

Honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) provides honey and honey products which contribute to a healthy diet to human. Honey bees are common live social insects which are called as colony. They provide 85% of pollination among whole pollination of the World. From this side honey bees are crucial for maintaining of nature life. Anatolia which is Asian part of...

Ayvacik horse is reared in Ayvacik county of Canakkale province and its near which is a small size and solid horse breed. According to data of County Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of Ayvacik, there were about 218 horse holders who had 328 horses. Enterprises of 107 of 218 accepted to reply survey queries which were carried out by a...

During thousands of years of Turkish History, camels were always important in their life. In the past camels were used as transport, pack, ride, war, food, and sport animal by Turks. After industrialization and modernization since 20th century, camel lost their importance and nowadays they are only a sport and tourism material in Turkey. Hence the...

Honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) provides honey and honey products which contribute to a healthy diet to human. Honey bees are common live social insects which are called as colony. They provide 85% of pollination among whole pollination of the World. From this side honey bees are crucial for maintaining of nature life. Anatolia which is Asian part of...

The purpose of this study is to examine sericulture folklore in Turkish Social Life. Sericulture which gave the name “The Silk Road” to the old world’s trade routes between east and west, has an important role at financial activities for centuries. Journey of the silkworm from cocoon to fibre, fiber to fabric and fabric to clothes has affected t...

Mulberries (Morus spp.) are historically grown in particular micro-climatic regions in Eastern Anatolia, including Aras valley. In the valley, mulberries are one of the ancient crop and used for several purposes by local people. The aim of the present study was to first time evaluate organic acids, sugars, vitamin C, antioxidant capacity (TEAC assa...

Tree fruit crops are important part of Turkish agriculture, economy and trade. IPM programs in orchards have been used in Turkey for more than two decades. Weed IPM had mainly focused on prevention, good cultural practices, and mechanical and chemical control. Herbicide used in orchards, however, has been increasing due to simplicity, effectiveness...

According to ancient sources sericulture was started to be produced in China. Silkworm eggs were illegally exported from China by a Chinese Princess who married a royalty out of Chinese Imperial. Turks who were north neighbour nation of Chinese nation carried those silkworm eggs during their long journey to west. Silk used to be a crucial figure in...

Binlerce yıldır süregelen Türk Tarihi içinde deve son yüzyıla kadar çok önemli bir yer tutmuştur. Develer tarihte ulaşım, yük, binek, savaş, gıda ve spor amacı ile insanlığa hizmet etmiştir. Ancak 20. Yüzyılda başlayan endüsrileşme ve modernleşme süreci içinde deve önemini kaybetmiş ve günümüzde sadece bir spor ve turizm malzemesidir. Bu nedenle de...

Balkans consist of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, and Turkey. In Balkans there are quite succesfull livestock guardian dogs including Akbash Shepherd in (Turkey), Bucovina Shepherd (Romania), Bulgarian Shepherd (Bulgaria), Carpatin Shepherd (Romania), Greek Sheph...

According to 2013 data from TUIK, of the 11.8 million tons of tomato productions in Turkey have been consisted of the table tomatoes (67.19%) and tomatoe paste (32.81%). In Turkey, approximately 25% to 30% of the tomato production are processed in the food industry and the remaining amount is consumed as fresh. 80% of the total amount of processed...

The study was conducted to determine organization related problems of producers were the members of rural development cooperatives and to preset solution proposals in Igdir province. The data surveyed from 115 rural development cooperative member producers determined in Igdir and territories by simple random sampling method are used in this study....

ZET: Dünya Antepfıstığı üretiminde İran ve ABD'nden sonra üçüncü sırada yer alan ülkemiz, son yıllarda Suriye ve Çin'in yakın takibinde bulunmaktadır. Ülkemizde 2013 verilerine göre 38.116 bin meyve veren ağaçtan 88.6 bin ton Antep fıstığı üretilmektedir. Birçok meyve türünde olduğu gibi ülkemiz, Antep fıstığının da gen merkezlerinden biridir. Ülke...

This study’s aim is to gather some basic information of Pigeon. Pigeon is known the first domesticated bird species. Domestic pigeon (Columba livia Gmelin, 1789) has been bred for six thousand years or more in order to various purposes. There are various race of the species, which some have been bred for their flying abilities as diver, tumbler (so...

In Turkish History, camels were always important in their life. In the past camels were used as transport, pack, ride, war, food, and sport animal by Turks. After industrialization and modernization since 20th century, camel lost their importance and nowadays they are only a sport and tourism material in Turkey. Hence the camel population in Turkey...

Balkans consist of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, and Turkey. In Balkans there are quite succesfull livestock guardian dogs including Akbash Shepherd in (Turkey), Bucovina Shepherd (Romania), Bulgarian Shepherd (Bulgaria), Carpatin Shepherd (Romania), Greek Sheph...

In history mules used to use widely in Turkey. After mechanization started in middle of 1900’s, number of mule population decreased year by year. Engine vehicles such as tractors substitute not only mules but also camels, donkey and horses in rural areas. The mules are raised in provinces of Sirnak, Mardin, Hakkari and Van in the southeast and east...

Agricultural sector, which is prominent due to employing an important percent of country population in Turkish economy; meeting the need of food: and bringing foreign exchange to the country via exportation, and which is also intertwined with commerce, industry and economy, is condueted by entrepreneurs very common and dispersed within a rural resi...

A questionnaire was conducted to determine factors influencing consumption of chicken meat and fish meat, as well as purchasing decision for 400 consumers selected randomly in Iğdır province. Chi-square test was used to the association between demographic variables (age, sex, marital status, andeducation and income level) and each of questions on c...

233 cattle breeding enterprises in Iğdır Province are interviewed in this study. Stratified sampling method is used in the selection of the enterprises, and the survey is conducted in 2013 while related data belongs the year 2012. Expense factors of these enterprises are investigated and signifıcant factors affecting profitability are determined. I...

Binlerce yıldır süren Türk Tarihi boyunca at ve koyunun yanısıra deve de önemli bir hayvan idi. Arkeolojik kanıtlara göre Türkler arasında deve güreşlerinin en azından 4.000 yıllık geçmişi vardır. Rusya Cumhuriyeti'ne bağlı Hakasya Cumhuriyeti'nin Sulekskay, Margiana'da bulunan deve güreşini gösteren bir taş tılsım en azından M.Ö. 2.000 yılına tari...

zet 2010 yılı Gıda ve Tarım Örgütü'nün (FAO) verilerine göre; dünyada bulunan 77.619.201 adet arı kolonisinin 5.602.670 adedi, 1.540.242 ton balın yaklaşık 81.115 tonu Türkiye'de üretilmektedir. Türkiye koloni sayısı ve bal üretiminde dünya üretiminde ilk sıralarda bulunmaktadır. Aynı verilere göre bal üretim miktarı açısından Çin'den sonra ikinci...

This study was conducted first time in Turkey regarding the phenotypic traits of Turkish camels. The aim of this study was to determine the morphological characteristics of Turkish camels raised in Balikesir and Canakkale provinces of Turkey. In this study, a total of 81 male camels were used in Burhaniye County of Balikesir province during a camel...

As Turkish economy has adopted growth model based on export for many years, Turkey is one of countries that have the most custom gates of the world. Border trade starting during the years 1978-79 in Turkey has been a significant source and employment in the development of the eastern and southeastern Anatolia regions. The border trade gives opportu...

Bu çalışma Iğdır ilinin çiftlik hayvanları genetik kaynakları ile birlikte, problemlerini tartışmak ve çözüm önerilerini ortaya koymak için gerçekleştirilmiştir. Iğdır ili 1992 yılında Kars ilinden ayrılmış, en yeni illerimizden birisidir. Iğdır’da kentte yaşayanların oranı % 51 olup, bu oran % 67 olan Türkiye ortalamasının oldukça altındadır. % 49...

This study is the first in Turkey about body sizes of Turkish camels. The aim of this study is to determine Turkish camels morphologically raised in Balikesir Region of Turkey. In this study a total of 81 male camelswas used in provinces of Balikesir. Descriptive statistics of morphologic traits for withers height were 161.7±1.42 cm, body length 14...

Sanayileşme ile başlayan ve kırdan şehre yönelen göçe paralel olarak ortaya çıkan şehirleşme, beton, cam ve asfaltın çerçevelediği gri bir hayat tarzını insanlara dayatmaktadır. Kendisi ya da bir nesil öncesi köylerden gelmiş olan insanlar, tabiat özlemlerini evlerinde yetiştirdikleri çeşitli bitkiler ve hayvanlarla gidermeye çalışmaktadırlar. Aynı...

Bu çalışmada Iğdır ilinde ve ilçelerinde bitki üretimi yapan tarım işletmesi sahiplerinin bitki korumayla ilgili uygulamalarını gerçekleştirirken, tabiata ve insan sağlığına verebilecekleri zarar hakkında bilgili olup olmadıkları araştırılmıştır. Çalışmanın verileri Gıda, Tarım ve Hayvancılık Bakanlığı Iğdır İl Müdürlüğünün Çiftçi Kayıt Sisteminde...