The Structural Situation of the Dairy Cattle Farms in Kahramanmaraş Province 4 Social and Cultural Sitiation in Farmers

This study was carried out to determine the social and cultural structure in kahramanmaraş dairy cattle farms. generally, the number of sheep and goat, and cattle per family determined as 8.61 and 3.55, respectively. the size of holdings land per family engaged in both crop production and animal husbandry, and only animal husbandry was 50 decares and 48 decares, respectively. according to invistigation, average nuber of agricultural holdings was 9.09 bbhb. current cattle breeds in farms were 30 % of native breeds, 48 % cross breeds and 22% were cultural breeds. it was determined that 43% of the farm owners is education was primary school; 9% did not go to school; 26% secondary school, 21% high school and 1% university. 97% of the farmers have radio; 91% of them use gsm, 100% of them have tv. 51% of the farmers have tractor and 49% of them use private otomobil. 25% of the farmers read daily newspaper; 8% of them read animal related material; 48% of them follow agricultural tv channel.