Address:Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Ankara Nuclear Reseach Center in
Agriculture and Animal Sciences,
06983 Saray, Ankara, Turkey
Tel:+903128154308
Fax:+903128154305
Contact: Doz.Dr. Ms. Nurcan Cetinkaya nurcet@taek.gov.tr
ESTABLISHMENT AND HISTORY
Agricultural researches activities had been carried out at Turkish Atomic
Energy Authority from 1970 to 1978 in Ankara Nuclear Research and Training Center as Group of Agricultural and Biological Application of Radioisotopes
Agricultural researches had been conducted at Nuclear Agricultural division from 1978 to 1984. After that these division had been transferred to Sarayköy location as Nuclear Agricultural Research Center in 1990. Research activities had been conducted in Ankara Nuclear Research and Training Center as the Nuclear
Agriculture Research Institute of Nuclear Research Center in 1991. In 1994 ANAEM transferred to Sarayköy location after that Nuclear Agricultural Institutes named
Nuclear Agricultural Division.
The researches on animal sciences in years between 1978-1981 were carried out at the Department of Radioisotope Application. In 1981, Lalahan Nuclear
Research Institute in Animal Health (LNRIAH) was established by Turkish Atomic
Energy Authority, located 30 km. east of the city center of Ankara, on 13 acre of area in Lalahan, Elmadağ. Until 1999, the Institute continued its function of research and educational activities on animal diseases and other causes of suboptimal production of livestock by using nuclear and related techniques.
ANKARA NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER IN AGRICULTURE AND ANIMAL
SCIENCE (ANRCAAS) had been established by joining Lalahan Nuclear Research
Institute in Animal Health to the Department of Nuclear Agriculture and The
Department of Radiation in 1999.
ACTIVITIES OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The basic and applied research and development activities of the Center are concentrated on Plant Breeding and Protection, Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition,
Nuclear Biotechnology, Animal Nutrition, Food Irradiation and Sterilisation. The
Center has been working on the problems related to agriculture, animal sciences and food by using nuclear and related techniques, which are not being solved by conventional techniques.

National and International collaborative researches on above subjects have been carried on with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Food and
Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), and North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation (NATO). The Center is donated with well-equipped laboratories, greenhouses, experimental-animal units, Co-60 and small scale Cs-137 irradiation sources to carry on the research projects.
PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES
The kits for the improvement of reproductive performance of livestock, and to ensure the requirements of breeding sector; Feed additives of vitamine and mineral mixtures, and the feeding-cake are the main productions of the Center. In addition, the Center has an experimental-animals-reproduction unit.
ANALYSIS SERVICES
These are chemical analyses of feedstuffs, analyses of blood metabolites, analyses of hormones, analyses of radiation measurement of food materials, industrial-aimed analyses, analyses of macro, micro and trace elements, selection of dose and analyses for industrial sterilization and food irradiation, analyses of material compatabilitiy(to radiation), analyses of total nitrogen anf N-15, protein, fat and beta counting ( 14 C and 3 H ) of plants and veterinary services.
EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Research results are announced to the science world throughnatinal and international congress, symposium and meetings and published in national and international scientific journals. Increasing and improvements in the animal and plant production through application of nuclear techniques, food irradiation and sterilization, national and international course, seminar and meetings on radiation processes and internship opportunities for university and high schools students are provided.
Results of research studies and products developed in our center are announced through media and exhibitions to public.
PERSONNEL

Dept. of Radiobiology
Application
Dept. of Radioisotope Dept. of Animal Nutrition
Biotechnology
Dept. of Nuclear
and Sterilisation
Dept.of Food Irradiation
Educational Affairs
Provision
Affairs
Managemental
Technical Affairs
Finance
Scientific Affairs
Deputy Director
Scientific Affairs
Deputy Director
Management and Finance
Deputy Director
Officer
Civil Defence
DIRECTOR
7 Associate Professors
31 Scientist with PhD,
36 Specialist with MSc,
42 Technicians ,
41 Administrative officers
TOTAL 157 personnel are employed.
ANIMAL NUTRITION DEPARTMENT
The objective of the Department is to contribute to improve animal productivity and feed utilization by the use of nuclear and related biotechnological techniques in animal nutrition researches. With contributions of International Atomic Energy Agency through the Technical Co-operation Programme, the research carried out in the
Department has focused on the study of feedstuffs and on the response of animals to different diets and nutritional factors by using nuclear and related techniques. Also, treatment and conservation technologies of feedstuffs are studied. Nuclear techniques are used in animal nutrition in two ways: in vitro or in vivo radiotracing the substances and biological processes of nutritional importance, and irradiation of feeds for preservation or quality modification. Nuclear-aided animal nutrition research is carried out by interdisciplinary studies with well equipped laboratories with analytical instrumentation (beta and gamma radiation counters, atomic absorption spectrophotometer, uv-vis spectrophotometer, GLC and HPLC chromatography systems, ELİSA and RIA systems), feed treatment equipment and other basic experimental equipment and facilities for animal nutrition experiments. Deparment study programme comprises:

- Evaluating feedstuffs for animals in terms of chemical composition and nutritive value (energy, oil, fibre, digestible organic matter, carbohydrate, protein, minerals, vitamins, water, physical properties, microbiological quality and cost per unit of nutrient).
- Evaluating animal response to different diets and nutritional factors in terms of changes in intake, digestion, metabolism, utilization of feed, body weight, body condition, quality/quantity of products, and interaction with other environmental factors.
- Preparation, treatment, mixing and conservation of feedstuffs.
- Diagnosis of nutritional disorders.
- Ration formulation, including least cost analyses, based on the nutritional value of feedstuffs for different animal groups and their specific requirements.
- Formulating vitamin and mineral premixes and complete supplement.
- Feed additives involving antibiotics, growth promoters, probiotics, toxin binders, chemotherapeutics and hormonelike products.
- Rumen fermentation reactions, ruminal digestion, postgastric digestion and absorption of nutritients, and manipulation of these processes.
- Effects of nutrition on reproductivity and fertility.
- Environmental aspects of animal nutrition.
- Nuclear and related technologies for animal nutrition studies.
- Mechanistic study and mathematical modelling of nutritional processes.
Some pioneer researches in Turkey carried out by the Deparment are as follows:
- Diagnosis and evaluation of mineral nutrition disorders in animals (etiology) by the use of nuclear-analytical techniques and proper mineral supplementation for individual and regional mineral deficiencies and imbalances.
- Estimation of in situ and in vitro dry matter degradabilities of feedstuffs for ruminants by using nylon bag, gas production, enzyme digestion and detergent extractions.
- Making use of radioimmunoassay (RIA), enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
(ELISA) and related techniques to improve conception rate by artificial insemination, to increase milk production and to control effects of nutrition and several diseases on the reproduction of livestock.
- Feed supplementation based on urea-molasses-multinutrient block (UMMB) technology to improve production and reproduction. UMMB cake feed was prepared from agro-industrial by-products (beet molasses, wheat bran, oil seed cakes) with supplementation of urea, salt and minerals to meet all requirements of ruminal livestock.
- Radiation processing of lignocelluloses to increase ruminal digestibility.
- Application of mathematical modelling in animal nutrition and rumen fermentation.
- Evaluation and control of radioactivity contamination in feedstuffs and animal products.
ROUTINE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT IN THE ANIMAL NUTRITION DEPARTMENT
PRODUCTION:
- Urea molasses multinutrient block cake feed for animal nutrition,

- Formulating and preparation of ration, supplement, mineral and vitamin premixes.
ANALYSES:
A. Chemical analysis of feedstuffs:
- Proximate analysis: dry matter (water), ash (minerals), Crude protein (Kjeldahl process), ether extract (fat), carbohydrates involving crude fiber (hemicellulose, cellulose and some insoluble lignin) and nitogen-free extract.
- Fiber analysis: Van Soest detergent extraction of forage by neutral and acid detergent for fiber evaluation of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin.
- In situ and in vitro ruminal degradability of feedstuffs.
- Measurement of feedstuff energy.
- Mineral analyses by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (AAS) and Neutron
Activation Analysis (NAA).
- Vitamin and enzyme analyses by colorimetric methods.
- Radioactivity analysis by gamma spectrometry.
B. Chemical analysis of animal tissues:
- Biochemical analyses by colorimetry and chromatography.
- Mineral analyses in blood, milk, urine and other biological samples by AAS and NAA
- Blood matabolic profile tests involving glucose, urea, beta hydroxy butyrate, albumin and total protein by colorimetrc assays.
- Progesterone determination by RIA in milk, blood and urine.
C. Feeding and metabolism trials for biological evaluation of feedstuffs.
DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR BIOTECHNOLOGY
Animal husbandry still plays an important role in Turkish Economy. This sector not only provides raw materials to the industry, increase in export trade and employment to the people, but also provide adequate and balanced nutritional possibilities to the society.
Studies of the Department were first initiated in 1981 on researches into diseases and other causes of suboptimal production of livestock at Lalahan Nuclear
Research Institute in Animal Health. In 1999, two departments of the Institute, Animal
Diseases and Reproductive Physiology, were unified as Department of Nuclear
Biotechnology was established in its new location called Sarayköy.
The objectives of the research programmes of the department is to use nuclear and related techniques to solve the problems with respect to animal health and production.
For the researches, there is a laboratory animals unit at the department having sheep, angora goats, rabbits and Balb/c mice.
The studies of the department can be gathered into two sections.

The aim of the section of Reproductive Physiology is the use of hormonal parameters combined with clinical observations in evaluating and improving reproductive performance of farm animals under traditional and small-holder farm systems of management. Hormonal parameters are being detected by using advanced and sensitive techniques such as Radioimmunoassay (RIA) and Enzymeimmunoassay
(EIA).
- Field application of the progesterone EIA technique for the improvement of reproductive performance of dairy cows.
- Control of estrus cycle and early pregnancy in farm animals.
- Artificial insemination and fertility control of dairy cattle, evaluation and solution of fertility problems.
- Development of EIA and RIA techniques for hormones, production, purification and quality control of antisera.
- Production of monoclonal antibodies against hormones, immunisation and fusion studies.
- Production and marketing of progesterone EIA kit (REPROKON).
The section of Animal Diseases has been working on diagnosis and prevalence of infectious and parasitic diseases which cause economic losses and having zoonotic importance by using sensitive and specific serologic techniques.
Some of these infections are babesiosis, theileriosis, brucellosis, cysticercosis, cryptosporidiosis, giardiosis. The genetic parameters effecting production, biotechnologic procedures in disease diagnosis, biocompatibility of hydrogels produced in the Center and application of their use in drug industry are some other works of the section.
- Application and validation of ELISA and IFA techniques to diagnose parasitic and infectious diseases, and production of antigen.
- Diagnosis of ovine and bovine piroplasmosis by using ELISA and IFA techniques and investigations on prevalence of these infections in Turkey.
- Prevalence studies on Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia spp.
- Effect of gamma irradiation on food-borne parasites such as cysticercosis.
- Preparation of parasitic cultures, effect of gamma radiation on reproduction and maturity of these parasites.
- The examination of the municipal wastewater for the detection and radiation induced inactivation of zoonotic microorganisms.
- Effect of babesiosis on blood metabolites.

- Application and validation of PCR technique in species specific diagnosis of parasitic and infectious diseases.
- Studies on purine metabolism.
PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES
"REPROKON" MILK PROGESTERONE EIA KIT
Progesterone hormone is the most important parameter in the control of animal reproduction. Progesterone hormone is routinely determined by using RIA
(Radioimmunoassay) or EIA (Enzymeimmunoassay) techniques in many countries.
In Turkey, these techniques have limited use since the cost of imported Progesterone kits.
" REPROKON " test kit provides many advantages to the user :
High specificity
High sensivity
Rapid results
No user of radioactive material
Working with small amounts
Using of inexpensive instruments (inexpensive instrumentation)
FOOD IRRADIATION AND STERILIZATION DEPARTMENT
Irradiation process has taken an important part in the development of the various areas of industry during the second half of the last century, and fashioned a preferred environment friendly alternative to the classical chemical processes, which are mostly harmful for human health and environment. Although, the most abundant applications of irradiation are food irradiation and medical sterilization processes, tens of application areas, such as industrial waste water treatment, sludge decontamination, wood irradiation are being developed and put into practice today.
Each application area of irradiation technology, as a high technology tool, requires know how, quality control and research services, legislative basis and, personnel with expertise as well.
Athough, the laboratory studies on the irradiation methods, especially food irradiation, has a history more than three decades in Turkey, industrial application could be realized with the commissioning of two gamma irradiation facilities in 1993. The first one belongs to TAEA, which has been operated by the Food Irradiation and Sterilization Department FISD, while the later is a private one.
FISD introduced irradiation technology to the domestic medical supply and food producers during the last decade, through the training activities; such as periodic courses, workshops and person-to-person interviews and had given industrial and laboratory services to the related governmental and private bodies, besides of the technical consultancy.

FISD, considered as a department with its ability of transferring new technologies and setting higher quality standards in radiaton processing technology of the country. The Gamma Irradiation Facilty (GIF) of FISD supplies industrial irradiation service, 24 hours per day and 7 days basis, with its current irradiation power of 200.000 Ci Co-60 source by the end of the year 2002, which can be augmented to 1000.000 according to the future needs.
The FISD Laboratories has been designed in order to function as the quality control laboratories for GIF, besides of the research and training activities on the varied areas of irradiation technology.
Gamma Irradiation Facility
Irradiation system is constructed in a 800 m 2 building which is formed by irradiation chamber and warehouse. The irradiation mechanism of the facility is Hungarian made wet storage SVST Co-60-1 type, using computer controlled tote box transport system. The design parameters permit for the use of a maximum 1 MCi of AECL C-
188 type Co-60 source. Irradiation process can be set to batch and continuous process according to the irradiation batch size. The biological shielding of the irradiation chamber made of mono-block concrete which can bear 2 MCi of source.
The source is stored in a pool filled with de-ionized water. The amount of 9.3 m 3 can be irradiated in a closed cycle in the facility. The initial activity was 100 kCi in 1993.
High Dose Dosimetry Laboratory
Radiation process can be expressed as, imparting certain amount of radiation energy into the target material, which can be measured by dosimeters. The Process control of the irradiation is achieved by absorbed dose measurement procedures, so called
Dosimetry. Precise and accurate measurement of the maximum, minimum and average absorbed doses by varied irradiated products is the main responsibility of the laboratory, which is one of the most important features of irradiation process.
Determination of the process parameters, such as dose rate, dose distribution ratio for the products with varied densities, calibration of the routine dosimeters, dose mapping studies are being carried out in the laboratory. International traceability studies of the dose measurement are under process and expected to be realized in the near future. Projects on the production of wide range, cheaper and more sensitive dosimeters, such as alanine-EPR, are also being carried out.
Radiation Microbiology Laboratory
The dose required to achieve a certain level of sterilization is a function of the number and radioresistance distribution of microbiological flora existing on the product. Determination of the sterilization dose of a medical supply is carried out prior to irradiation process with respect to their intended use, microbial load, and its radioresistance distribution.
FISD Radiation Microbiology Laboratory acts as a unique laboratory giving service for the dose setting of the medical products to be radio-sterilized. The procedures for dose setting required by national and international standard are being applied in order to set a higher quality for the products to be processed in the facility.
Material Compatibility Laboratory

Research and testing studies are carried out subject of
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-radiation interaction of polymeric materials, immediate and long-term effect of radiation on those types of materials. Main duty and field of activities of this laboratory is to determine the effect of
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-radiation at total dose proposed to expose to the single use medical supplies or similar polymeric materials to be irradiated for sterilization. In other words, main duty and field of activities of this laboratory is to determine the compatibility of the material for the irradiation dose to be given to the products to be irradiated.
The immediate effects of irradiation on the materials can be summarized as the changes in the mechanical and thermal properties of the material just after the irradiation, and the extend of those changes depend on the total dose given to the material. Chemical reactions continue after irradiation during shelf life due to trapped radicals in solid polymer body, which cause to some additional changes in properties of materials. These changes so called late effects are also determined for compatibility purposes.
Testing and determination studies of those changes are a must for compatibility studies, which is necessary in order to decide whether the changes in material are at an acceptable level.
In connection with above studies advisory and consulting service activities on demand for manufacturers/producers of single use medical supplies aiming radiation sterilization, are in the scope of functions of this laboratory which provides prevention of undesired irradiation effects.
In addition to all above activities, some standard test services that can be done in this laboratory, are conducted for a charge, which is declared annually by TAEA.
Irradiated Food Detection Laboratory
This laboratory has established for detection of irradiated foods at international trade.
Studies have started for application of internationally accepted methods, developing methods and determination of effectiveness of these methods on foods.
Food Chemistry Laboratory
Studies have been concentrated on the evaluation of physical, chemical and sensory quality properties of irradiated products for technological purposes, which have economical importance for the country. Desired and undesired effects of the irradiation process is being evaluated prior to the industrial application.
Food Microbiology Laboratory
Determination of the minimal dose, to eliminate pathogens and spoilage microorganisms in order to reach a higher food safety standards and to reduce losses during storage, is the principle object of the studies carried out in the laboratory. Parameters related to the disinfestation of the varied food commodities are being studied in the laboratory.
Research Activities
Production and application of new brand dosimeters.
improvement and comparison of dosimeters used in the process control

Improvement and inter-comparison of the dosimeters used in the process control.
Decontamination and improvement of municipal and industrial wastes by irradiation..
alteration of the physical properties of various polymers by cross linking.
determination of irradiation stability and resistance of polymers.
improvement of suitable polymers for irradiation.
preservation of foods by irradiation,
shelf life extension of foods,
detection of irradiated foods,
improvement the chemical and microbiological quality of foods by irradiation,
Applications
Verification and validation of microbiological requirements of TS EN 552.
Selection of sterilization doses according to the international standards.
Sterility test according to the TS 8232.
Selection of minimum dose for the sterility assurance level of the medical material according to the international standards.
Detection of radiation resistance and stability through shelf-life of polymer originated materials in medical supply
Industrial scale sterilization of disposable medicals such as; catgut, plastic syringes, surgical sets, plastic gloves, etc.
Experimental irradiation service at various temperatures and dose rates.
Inhibition of microorganisms, parasites, pathogens and insects of food stuffs.
determination of effective dose limits and process parameters, to obtain positive changes in irradiated foods,
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Extension of shelf-life of foods,
Detection of irradiated foods,
Determination of suitable dose limits and process parameters for a desirable change in the foods to be irradiated.
Consultation
presentation of irradiation technology to the medical and food producers,
consultation on the case spesific problems in the transfer of irradiation technology.
consultation on the feasibility studies to be carried out by private bodies,
consultation on the development of legislation and control of various irradiation technologies.

FISD acts as technical advisor for the studies to set regulation related to the use of irradiation in food industry, carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Ministry of Health; and also contributes to the studies related to the sterilization standards of the Turkish Institute of Standards.
DEPARTMENT OF RADIOBIOLOGY
Plant Breeding works are mainly based on cereals, food legumes and fodder crops.
Genetic variation is the basis of all plant breeding and is used to develope cultivars of improved yield and quality, of stress tolerance or resistance to diseases, of higher nitrogen fixation capacity and suitable for mechanized harvesting.
When desired variants are not available, radiation and chemical mutagens have been applied to induce genetic mutations from which the desired mutants may be selected .
In addition, recently, in vitro culture techniques in combination with mutagen treatments have been applied to increase the probability of selected mutants and promote the breeding of better crop cultivars and shorten the breeding period and time required. Aiming at the above mentioned purposes, a project had been started in 1982 on soybean mutation breeding . This project had been completed successfully. Two mutant soybean varieties were registered and named as TAEK A-
3_ and TAEK -C10 in 1994 with the characteristics of higher seed and oil yields per unit area, higher first pod height and protein content than the control.
Tobacco mutation breeding programme had been initiated at ANAEM by the collaboration of Ministry of Agriculture in 1984 with the aim of improving the well adapted cultivar that was susceptible to blue mold through the induction and selection of resistant mutant with desirable agronomic and quality traits. This project had been completed successfully. Two mutant Tobacco varieties were registered and named as TAEK TUTLUER – TAEK-PESKIRCIOGLU in 1999 with the characteristics of blue-mold resistance.
DEPARTMENT OF RADIOISOTOPE APPLICATION
Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition Group
Main aim of this group is to improve and increase the plant yields and quality via increasing the soil fertility levels. determining
In order to do this radioactive and stable isotopes are used for the fertility levels of the soils, the fertilizer use efficiencies of plants,
the relationships of fertilizers in different environments, the transformations and movements of fertilizers in the soils.
Also,15N and neutron probe techniques are used to determine the soil - plant - water relationships, especially for optimization of nitrogen and water.

Recently, drip irrigation - fertigation studies on potato, tomato, cucumber, pepper and melon crops are investigated to improve their yields and qualities. Also, the determination of the biological nitrogen fixation capacities of different legume crops are done.
Plant Protection Group
The aim of plant protection researches is to protect agricultural products against insects, plant diseases and weeds. In this field, control of post harvest diseases is possible by using gamma irradiation. Combination of irradiation with refrigeration, hot water and chemical treatment has more effect against the fungal agent. Gamma irradiation can be used as an effective method for insect disinfestation in the stored products.
Another research subject is to determine pesticide (which is used to control insects, plant diseases and weeds in the agricultural products) residues in the plant and soil. It is possible to determine total and bound residues quantitatively, and extractable residues both quantitatively and qualitatively by using radiotracer technique in combination with other chromatographic techniques such as TLC, GC,
HPLC. Nowadays there is a special interest in identifying the nature of the bound residues which can not be extracted by conventional extraction techniques.
Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE) techniques may provide possible means for extraction and identification of bound residues in the plant and soil samples.
Pesticides for registration should be properly assessed for bound residue formations.
Pesticides now in use, that have not already been assessed for bound residues formation and their potential toxicity, should also be investigated.

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
LALAHAN LIVESTOCK CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Contact Person: Dr. Ms. Sema Yaman: syaman@lalahanhmae.gov.tr
The web page of institute is www.lalahanhmae.gov.tr
Lalahan Livestock Central Research Institude (LLCRI) was established under the structure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), General Directorate of
Agricultural Researches, in 1957. The aim of the institute is to carry out scientific studies to increase animal productivity through improving genotip and environmental conditions in cattle, sheep, goat, poultry and small domestic animals. Institute is also entrusted with conservation of native genetic sources (eg Yerli Kara cattle, Angora goat, Denizli and Gerze fowl).
Breeding and Genetics, Animal Breeding, Feeds and Animal Nutrition, Biotechnology and Physiology, Programme and Project Evaluation, Grass and Pasture Studies, Training and
Extension, Production and Enterprise divisions are present in the structure of the institute.
There are 4 laboratories located in the institute as artificial insemination, embryo transfer, feeds and animal nutrition and wool and angora. Since 1957, the institute has successfully completed some research projects with contributions of some universities and relevant institutes in the region using mostly its own budget provided by MARA each year.
Since 1973 in the artificial insemination laboratory, which has 2 million dose sperm production capacity, 7 hundred thousand dose of frozen bull sperm have been produced and distrubuted all over the country anually. In the embryo transfer laboratory whose modernization was completed in 2001 in vitro maturation and fertilization studies in cattle have been carried on besides embryo transfer studies. Studies on freezing of cattle embryos produced by superovulation by means of vitrification have been started.
In the animal nutrition laboratory there are sophisticated equipments like AAS, HPLC,
UV-visible Spectrometer, PCR, DNA sequecing, image analayses apparatus besides wet chmical feed analysing equipments. In feeds and animal nutrition division, in vitro and in situ feed evaluation techniques, relations between in vitro and in situ protein degradation, upgrading of feed value by some chemical treatments, alternative feed sources and estimation of rumen microbial protein synthesis by urine purine technique have been studied. The project, development of a new method related with estimation of microbial protein by urine purine excretion was done under the coordination of Turkish Atomic Energy Agency as a coordinated research project supported by International Atomic Energy Agency/FAO.
Institute also has the responsibility of training technical staff and researchers from other institutes functioning under MARA. Each year several training programmes on AI, embryo transfer, reproduction, feed evaluation technigues and ruminant nutrition have been held. In the field of feeds and animal nutrition, many DSc and MSc students of veterinary and agricultural universities have been running their dissertation thesis in the animal nutrition laboratory under the concultancy of research staffs in relevant division of the institute.
Total personnel number of the institute is 150 including 21 researchers who have 14
DSc and 3 MSc as academic career.
There are 112 head dairy cattle as Holstein, Brown Swiss, Simmental and Yerli Kara breeds and 57 head artificial insemination bulls. The dairy cattles and AI bulls are kept in 4 barns with 250 head total capacity and 2 bull station each has 50 head capacity. There is full automated milking parlour to milk 10 cows at the same time. A concentrated feed preparation unit with the capacity of 5 tones/h, hay storage with 300 tones, feed ingredient silos with 180 tones and well silos with 300 tones are present. In the dairy barn d-laval alpro 6.02 milking and herd management system has been used.

The name of the journal of the institute being published since 1959 has been changed as “Journal of Lalahan Livestock Research Institute” in 1987 and has been issued as 2 volumes annually.
The Institute looks forward to participating in and establishing collaborations with
FP6. Contact Person: Dr. Ms. Sema Yaman: syaman@lalahanhmae.gov.tr