An Overview of Organic Livestock in the World and in Turkey

Abstract

In recent years, the activities required for organic productions in the world countries have accelerated.There are 50.9 million hectares of organic agricultural land in the world, including conversion areas. Oceania, withits largest agricultural area, ranks first with a share of 45% (22.8 million hectares). According to the 2015 data, thenumber of organic agriculture producers is 350 000 in Europe; in the European Union it is 270 000. Italy has themost producers (52 609 producers) in the EU countries; In Europe, Turkey (69 967 producers) is. With this number,Turkey ranks first in the European and European Union countries. Turkey is ranked 9th among European countries(486 069 hectares) in terms of organic farming area. In the years 2014 and 2015, there was a decrease of 11.6%in the number of organic rared animals, 47.6% in the meat and 64% in the milk productions while an increase of22.7% in the organic egg production was observed. Also, there was a 25.2% decrease in the number of organichoney producing farmers and a 25.4% decrease in the number of hives. However, there was a 96.1% increase intotal honey production. Although there is a large decrease in the number of animals in organic production in Turkeyin the last three years, it has a large share of increase between European countries compared to 2007 and 2015.Turkey has a great potential in organic agriculture. However, if these potentials are not evaluated with the rightpolicies, sustainability in the sector will be very difficult to achieve.

Özet

Son yıllarda dünya ülkelerinde organik üretim için gereken faaliyetler hız kazanmıştır. Dünya da dönüşüm