Yabani mantarlardan zehirlenme riski korkusu insanları kültüre alınabilen mantar türleri üretimini artırmaktadır. Bu mantar türleri içerisinde yer alan istiridye mantarı üretimindeki bazı avantajlar nedeniyle son yıllarda tercih edilir olmuştur. Mantar üretiminin artmasında üretim ortamlarında bölgesel çeşitliliğin sağlanması çok önemlidir. Bu çalışmada Van ve çevresine mantar üretimini yaygınlaştırmak ve bölge üreticilerinin kolay temin edebilecekleri saman ve atıl durumda olan demlenmiş çay atıklarında üretimin etkinliğini araştırmak amaçlanmıştır. Buğday samanı, demleme çay atığı ve hazır mantar üretim kitleriyle kurulan çalışma tesadüf parselleri deneme desenine göre dört tekerrürlü olarak tasarlanmıştır. Elde edilen mantarlarda, ilk hasat, karpofor ağırlığı, toplam verim, karpofor ölçüleri, makro ve mikro elementler parametrelerine bakılmıştır. Yapılan çalışmada çay ortamında üretilen mantar verilerinin, mantar üretimi yapan firmalardan alınan hazır kitlerden alınan mantar verilerine daha yakın sonuç alındığı görülmüştür.

Cultivation and consumption of berry fruits in the world and in our country is increasing due to reasons such as different ways of evaluation, high income per unit area and health benefits. Aronia, which belongs to the Rosaceae family, is a berry type that can be easily grown in temperate climates and has a high yield per unit area. Aronia is included in healthy nutrition programs due to the antioxidants, phenols, minerals and vitamins it contains. Besides fresh consumption, aronia fruits are also used by drying, processing into products such as fruit juice, vinegar, jam, tea, marmalade.

Turkey as well as in the developing world science, technology and the changing rural development and manufacturing approach accordingly with industry, has changed the shape of the realization of agricultural activities. As a result of new production methods, environmental and human health deteriorated and scientists have turned to organic agriculture. Organic farming practices, which started in the 1980s in our country, have improved significantly with the publication of the organic farming regulation in 1994 and the regulation was last regulated in 2018. Our country with conditions favourable for organic agriculture in terms of soil and water resources, climate, variety of products, this study was prepared in order to see how organic agriculture has progressed over the years and at what stage it is today. In 1990, 8 organic products were produced in Turkey with 313 farmers in an area of 1,037 ha. According to the latest data 73,563 farmers have grown 2,371,612 tons of organic products in 626,885 ha organic agriculture area. In addition, the organic product range produced was increased to 213. When we look at the export situation, it is seen that the total export amount is 111,690,675 tons and a significant amount of this export amount is 41.633,896 tons of wheat and wheat products. Looking at the import data, it is known that the total import amount is 175,865,85 tons and the most imported product is soybeans (non-seed) (99,446 tons). Although a significant increase in organic agriculture production has been observed compared to previous years, it is anticipated that this increase may increase even further considering Turkey's agricultural potential.

The commercial production of cultivated-mushroom, which has a forty years of past in Turkey, was started after 1980s. Until the recent decade, most of the total amount of production in Turkey was performed by family members while the cultivation of the product has gained an upward trend since the beginning of 2000s, though the amount and development rate were not enough. During that time, a number of large (>2000 m2) and medium (500-2000 m2) scale mushroom production facilities were established and Turkey has gained an important place in mushroom production in the world. In this study, we aimed to reveal the common production methods of ten medium and large scale mushroom companies whose daily production capacities are above 1 ton in six regions. In this respect, all companies have been visited and communicated directly with company representatives and a survey comprising 65 questions about company, production facility, compost and casing soil, production systems, diseases and pests and packaging was made. The findings have suggested us that such companies have mostly a history of 15 years of time and have a land size of 10-50 thousand m2, while their mushroom production areas vary between in size and that they make use of technology in production and automation in their plants and they have quality management systems (ITU, ISO 9001, ISO 22000 and Global Gap ) and they employ generally qualified and experienced technicians or agriculture engineers and also that 40% of them receive consultancy and also that they use their own productions or standard ready mycelium planted compost and that they use domestic peat as casing material and that they package the mushrooms with their brands and sell to markets mostly and lastly that they conduct pre-sale quality sorting and grading. It was also seen that there is lack of food engineers employed and most of the companies do not receive consultancy, and that the waste compost is not evaluated correctly and that the covering material is not in the required standards and that there are even companies not doing any water analysis and that coal for heating and chemicals for disinfection are used and that diseases and pests are inevitable and last that they lack in processing different products.

The basic rule in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) rearing is to work with qualified queens. Quality queen means strong and healthy colonies. Honey bee colonies are a social community, each managed by a single queen bee. The queen bee is the only female that produces eggs in the colony under normal conditions, and the quality and healthy queen is important for the continuity of the colony. Many factors affect the quality of the queen bee, such as the rearing colony, the age of the transferred larva and the transfer medium, the season, cell emergence weight, spermatheca charged, the characteristics of the starter and finisher hives. In this paper, the issues to be considered in raising a quality queen are emphasized.

Niğde is one of the provinces in Turkey where potato production is carried out intensively. In this study it was aimed to examine the change in the potato production costs and profitability in Niğde province in 2000-2014 period. In Niğde the absolute profit obtained from the potato production was calculated as 355.6TL/da for 2014. Among the examined years, the year in which the highest absolute profit was 2005 with 450.8 TL/da and the lowest absolute profit was in 2012 with -329.7 TL/da. Gross production value can meet the production costs in all of the examined years except for 2012. However, with the increase in production costs, absolute and relative profits tended decrease.

Mushroom production that started in 1960's in Turkey gained economic value from the 1990's and it started improving as a commercial sector after that time. While Turkey mushroom production was 80 tons in 1973, it increased up to 45.000 tons in 2014. There is a rapid changes and improvement in cultivated mushroom production and consumption in Turkey. The object of the study is to reveal current status of mushroom production in the world and Turkey, and the problems of the mushroom sector in Turkey and the necessary precautions and ways to solve these problems. The data obtained from the inspections of the mushroom enterprises that in mushroom production regions of Turkey, and the secondary data obtained from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and Union of Antalya Exporters (AIB) and also national and international publication’ data has been used in this study. In Turkey, Mediterranean and Marmara Regions rank first in mushroom production and consumption with the share of 61.5 and 40%, respectively. It has been determined that big enterprises producing mushroom and compost established in the Central Anatolia in this study. The number of enterprises producing mushroom by using technology increases and 15-20% of the total production are provided by the big enterprises having 2000 m2 and over mushroom production areas. Recent years, there are serious increases in the production of different mushroom species such as especially Pleurotus ostreatus. In addition, precision agriculture applications are widespread with the time. For the continuation of growth of the mushroom sector in Turkey and the solving of the sector problems, there are needs both in making the necessary changes in legislation and to be given priority researches related to mushroom production in university and public research institutions and also to support them.

Bu araştırmanın amacı, Gümüşhane ili Kelkit, Şiran ve Köse ilçelerinde şeker fasulyesi yetiştiriciliği yapılan işletmelerde demografik ve yapısal faktörlerin dekar başına brüt kar üzerindeki etkilerini belirlemektir. Bu kapsamda brüt kâr ile bazı demografik ve yapısal özellikler arasındaki ilişkiler araştırılarak, bu faktörlerin kârlılık üzerindeki etkileri Karar Ağacı yöntemiyle analiz edilmiştir. Araştırma bölgesinde, ata tohumu olan ve diğer şeker fasulyesine göre yöreye has özellikleri barındıran Kelkit şeker fasulyesi için coğrafi işaret tescili alınmıştır. Ancak son yıllarda yöre çiftçisi ata tohumunu kullanmak yerine çevre bölgelerden elde ettikleri şeker fasulyesi tohumunu kullanmaktadır. Tescillenen Kelkit şeker fasulyesi ile geleneksel şeker fasulyesi üretiminde brüt kar üzerinde hangi demografik ve yapısal faktörlerin etkili olduğunu ortaya koymak bu araştırmanın temel sorusunu oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmadan elde edilen sonuçlara göre; toplam ekili alandaki şeker fasulyesi payı, toplam ekili alan, Cİ’li Kelkit şeker fasulyesi üretim durumu, mülk arazi büyüklüğü, hanede tarımla uğraşan birey sayısı, toplam tarımsal üretim değeri içerisinde şeker fasulyesinin payı ve üretici yaşı elde edilen brüt kar üzerinde etkili faktörler olarak belirlenmiştir.

Sıcak bölgelerde ve yaz aylarındaki yüksek sıcaklıklar, yumurta tavuklarının verim ve üretkenliğini bozmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, sıcaklık stresinin yumurta tavuklarının verim ve üretkenlik üzerine etkilerine dikkat çekerek ortaya çıkan kayıpları azaltmak için alınacak önlemler hakkında detaylı bilgi vermek amaçlanmıştır. Sıcaklık stresi, bağışıklık tepkilerini engellenmesi nedeniyle yüksek ölüm oranları ile ticari yumurta tavuğu üretiminde önemli ekonomik kayıplara yol açan ve üretim performansının tüm parametrelerini, üretkenliği etkileyen en zorlu sorunlardan biridir. Yüksek vücut ısısı, sıcak-kuru deri, felç, baş ağrısı ve bilinç kaybı gibi nörolojik belirtilerle kendini gösterir. Sıcak krampları ve çarpması sonucu ölümlere sebep olmaktadır. Ayrıca sıcaklık stresi dişi-erkek yumurta tavuklarının üreme hormonlarının durumunu da bozar. Erkeklerde canlı sperm sayısı ve hareketini azaltarak kısırlığa neden olur. Sıcaklık stresinin etkisi yaşa, cinse, vücut ağırlığına, bağıl neme ve yüksek sıcaklıkta kalış süresine bağlıdır. Sıcaklık, optimum yumurta verimi ve kalitesi için 24°C’nin, refah ve üretkenlik için ise 27°C’nin üstüne çıkmamalıdır. Bu sıcaklığın üstünde tavuklarda hızlı nefes alma, vücutlarından çevreye ısı yaymama problemi, yem tüketimi ve canlı ağırlık artışında azalma görülmeye başlar. Yüksek sıcaklıklarda 34-35°C yumurta üretimi yaklaşık %30, yem alımı da %30-50 arasında azalmaktadır. Sonuç olarak, sıcaklık stresine karşı yem yönetimi, sıcaklık stresi azaltıcı katkı maddelerinin yeme ve suya eklenmesi, barınaklarda iklimsel çevre denetimi, erken yaşam şartlandırması ve sıcaklık stresine dayanıklı ırkların genetik seçimi gibi önlemler alınabilir.

Organic agricultural products are food products that are inspected and certified at all stages of production until they are offered for consumption by institutions that are authorized by the state. Beekeeping products made for human food are also subject to the same certification process. With this research, it was aimed to reveal the organic beekeeping and organic honey understanding of the people of Iğdır region. With the survey, the information of the local consumers about organic honey, how they got this information, their status and reasons for organic honey consumption, as well as the certification processes were collected. The obtained data were analyzed with numerical, proportional, and decision tree methods. The genders of the survey participants were 66% male, 34% female. It was also determined that 70.5% of the participants were under the age of 40, had a bachelor's degree or higher education level in the proportion of 43%, and 63% had a minimum wage or lower-income level. For the questions asked about the research topic, it was reported that participants know and eat organic honey in the proportion of 93%, buy organic honey in the proportion of 77.5%, having information about the organic honey certificate in the proportion of 67% and certification stages in the proportion of 43%. Despite these high rates, the same participants gave contradictory answers to some other questions, such as; for the question of “What is organic honey?” the answer of "Certified honey" in the proportion of only 11.5% and for the question of “How did you know that the organic honey you bought was organic honey?” the answer of " I saw its certificate” in the proportion of only 18.1%. This contradiction was noted. With this research, it was determined that the local people did not have enough information about organic beekeeping and honey understanding. In order to fill this gap, it can be suggested that healthy nutrition lessons be included in the education curricula starting from primary school, and usage of TV, radio, and internet broadcasting for this purpose. The fact that the participants' education level is high and their age is young may provide an advantage in order to get results from the training to be given on the subject.