Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's a long time ago in 1930 at the Atatürk Forest Farm has captured the images reflected in the media. U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and other guests can visit the farm and livestock farming in Ataturk's view that given how much importance can be seen once again. Another remarkable aspect is that farm animals in view of the short race, to focus on improvement efforts.
Since the establishment of the Republic of various studies were made for breeding race. First, local races were run in themselves to improvement. But enough progress in this way can not be imported animals will be race culture understood hybridization studies were initiated. Priority was given to imports from the 1970s. During this period, known only from studies abroad breeding animal breeding / semen imports was understood. This did not provide the desired success.
In recent years, both domestic and imported sources in breeding work to make the most serious step taken is that Turkey Breeding Cattle Breeders Association and the Center for Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture and by 1999 she started to be implemented was the National Breeding Program.
According to the Union Secretary General, told the Al-Fehmi, this program primarily in the context of the member companies in Breeding Cattle Breeders' Association relating to the cattle and yield records are logged soykütüğü. These records through evaluations in Turkey in the past bull semen obtained from fertilized control is intended to be. Have so far been produced domestically was imported bull semen from abroad as well as conditions of Turkey was not possible to try it out. Imported from abroad are imported semen of bulls for semen evaluation results in their own countries were considering. However, breeding, conducted in each country's own production conditions and preferences with countries working on the economic characteristics of the property is an activity carried out taking into consideration. Therefore, in any country in the past fertilized control, high efficiency with a value of a bull in Turkey may not be the same result.
Race alone is not sufficient improvement. Evaluation of milk in terms of necessarily, need to be analyzed. For this, we identified components for milk quality laboratories are needed. Central Union of Cattle Breeders Breeder Turkey on this issue has prepared a project. But life can not be found through the necessary resources available.
European Union supports this type of work is done in the state. European Commission's decision dated December 23, 2003 in the Official Gazette dated 3.1.2004 published 1 / 2004 dated Regulation:
Directly related to setup and maintain administrative Soykütüklerinin to meet expenditures of up to 100 percent,
Genetic evaluation and efficiency in order to identify the animal by the owner of the performance measurement and routine quality control of milk from outside the business by third parties on behalf of growers up to 70 percent of the cost of testing,
Investments in animal production centers for new animal breeding techniques or practices for the promotion of farm-level artificial insemination or the presentation applications, except for charges associated costs up to 40 percent of the aid can be provided as called.
This is in accordance with regulations in many EU countries, especially dairy farmer organizations run control measures and a large portion of the cost of keeping soykütüğü is supported by the state.
In Turkey, the breeding activities of the past year meant to encourage growers in order to significantly reduce their support was given soykütüğü.
To be done, Turkey Breeding Cattle Association is maintained by the Center for Training and quality improvement activities according to the milk market in order to establish a master milk control laboratories before spending Supporting life. In this way many problems can be solved with milk and milk quality according to a market can be created.