GÖÇER, Kenan Beykent University - Faculty of Engineering and Architecture - Industrial Engineering, Turkey

Analysis of the Role of Milk Yield in Sustainable Cattle Breeding Using Geographically Weighted Regression

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The main aim of this paper is to address the question of why native cattle were shifted from native breeds to cultured and cross-breed cattle from 2000 to 2010 and to examine whether milk yield played role in those shifts. In this paper, how milk yield influences cattle production is characterized by taking into account the contribution of local geographical relationships and variations. This paper is motivated by the concern that total number of native cattle has decreased most alarmingly in Turkey. Sustainable dairy farm systems are inextricably linked with high milk yield culture cattle imported from European countries. High milk yield has become the indicator that possesses the spillover effect for the development of cattle production. The high milk yield that is abused by culture cattle systems has led to a general increase in cattle production, especially in the west and middle-south of Turkey where farmers are relatively richer.

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Dairy farm systems , milk yield , sustainable livestock systems , geographically weighted regression , geographical information system

Yuzuncu Yil University Journal Of Agricultural Sciences

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