“…In central county of Erzincan province, 74.8% of owners of the enterprises sowed forage crops on their own farms, while 25.2% of those do not produce forage crops in their enterprises. Similarly, more than 3/4 of the cattle enterprises in Antalya, Iğdır, Kars, Muş, Tekirdağ, Kırklareli provinces as well as Narman county of Erzurum province grew fodder crops, that they needed, on their own farms (Kum, 2006;Yeşil, 2015;Demir et al, 2013;Bakır and Kibar, 2019;Öztürk et al, 2019;Diler et al, 2018). On the contrary of results of the present study, findings of other studies carried out in different regions of Turkey revealed lower percentages (47.2% in Konya 52.0 in Tekirdağ, 61.2% in Yalova, 16% in Hınıs county of Erzurum province) of enterprises which grew their own forage crops (Uzal and Uğurlu 2006;Soyak et al 2007;Bakır and Han, 2014;Diler et al 2016).…”