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Animal Health Economics and Menagement

Course Code	: VET319
Course Type	: Required
Couse Group	: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 2
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 2
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 2

Objectives of the Course

To teach the role and importance of animal production in the Turkish Economy and related problems. To teach main economic principles and the terminology. To teach demand, supply and price mechanism, business evaluation methods and profitability analysis of livestock holdings, main cost items and calculation of production costs for livestock products.

Course Content

The share of animal husbandry in Turkish Economy, and its missions. Some basic economic terms, supply and demand analysis. Choosing of the farm location. Production planning in farm business. Marketing of animal products. The cooperative system. Employment, inflation, gross national product, money.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Mehmet Kenan TÜRKYILMAZ

Learning Outcomes

1.	To be able to comprehend basic economic principles related to animal production.
2.	To be able to grasp fundamentals of the national economy.
3.	To be able to have knowledge of establishment and management of livestock enterprises .
4.	Knows production planning and animal product marketing methods in livestock enterprises.
5.	To be able to have basic knowledge to help entrepreneurs who will enter the animal production.
6.	To use professional abilities for the contribution of developing of Veterinary knowledge for increasing the quality of animal care and public health.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Aral, S (1997) Hayvancılık İşletme Ekonomisi Ders Notları, A.Ü. Veteriner Fakültesi, Ankara.
2.	Luening, R (1996) Süt Sığırcılığı İşletmelerinin Yönetimi (Çev: M. Kenan Türkyılmaz). ADU Yayın No: 29, Aydın.
3.	Luening, A.R. (2008): Süt Sığırcılığı İşletmelerinin Yönetimi. Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Yayınları, Yayın No: 29
4.	Müftüoğlu, T. (1994): İşletme İktisadı. Turhan Kitabevi, Ankara
5.	Korver, S., Arendonk Van, J.A.M. (1988): Modelling of Livestock Production Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers,London
6.	Morris, R.S. Dijkhuizen, A.A. (1997):Animal Health Economics. University of Sydney.
7.	Rodostits, O. M. (2001): Herd Health. W.B. Saunders Company.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

The share of animal husbandry in Turkish Economy, and it’s missions

Week 2 - Theoretical

Short history of economics, some basic economic terms

Week 3 - Theoretical

Supply and Demand Analysis, Market formation in Turkey

Week 4 - Theoretical

Choosing of the farm location and its main principles

Week 5 - Theoretical

Providing production factors in livestock Enterprises and production planning (personnel planning, wageing systems in farm business)

Week 6 - Theoretical

Stock control in farm business

Week 7 - Theoretical

Providing financial support in animal enterprises.Production planning in farm business (average, fixed and marginal revenue and costs, short and long run decision making in husbandry, main cost items and calculation of production cost in farms )

Week 8 - Theoretical

Midterm exam/Marketing of animal products (the structure of the market, study about potential consumers, advertising strategies, the importance of trademark and its formation, packaging problems)

Week 9 - Theoretical

The cooperative system (history, development of cooperatives in Turkey, its problems and basic principles of cooperative systems)

Week 10 - Theoretical

Livestock policies of Turkey (From general perspective)

Week 11 - Theoretical

Employment (types of unemployment in animal husbandry, structure of unemployment in the sector), Inflation (description, types of inflation and the negative effects of inflation on animal production)

Week 12 - Theoretical

Gross National Product (Calculation of GDP, distribution of GNP and Lorenz Curve), Money (money types, functions of money in a national economy, and items that used as money)

Week 13 - Theoretical

Economics of animal diseases and their control

Week 14 - Theoretical

Economics of herd health

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%40
Final Examination	1	%60

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	0	2	28
Assignment	1	0	10	10
Midterm Examination	1	3	2	5
Final Examination	1	5	2	7
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				50

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