The "Analysis of Cooperation Processes in Red Meat Production and Processing" project, carried out in cooperation with TÜBİTAK TÜSSİDE and the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, was completed.

With the project, various studies were carried out to increase the added value of the red meat sector, which is one of the sectors that provides employment to a significant part of the population in Erzurum and its Hinterland, helps to meet the need for food, provides economic income to many branches of the industrial sector and contributes to the economy with its export potential.

In the project, various analyses were carried out to provide resources for broad-based, long-term and systematic studies aimed at strengthening the sector and all parties locally, instead of smaller-scale financial support given to certain projects from the center. The position of institutions/organizations in the value chain and their contributions to the sector were analyzed in the studies that will provide input to the competition and needs analysis of the sector and shape the cooperation-oriented supports to be provided by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock in the coming periods.

Following the field research, which analyzed the problems of the sector that need to be solved, how the problems can be overcome by taking advantage of which strengths can be utilized and competitive policies can be followed, the outputs obtained were evaluated and the "Competitiveness Analysis" and "Needs Analysis" of the sector were revealed.

Evaluations were made on topics such as production, marketing, R&D, education, branding, quality and human resources, which will provide a detailed analysis of the sector, and various suggestions were made.

Within the scope of the project, cooperatives, sectoral food clusters, research institutions and universities, producer associations, technology and research centers of the Netherlands and Germany, which are prominent countries in the world in terms of cooperation within the livestock and livestock ecosystem, were visited on site. During the visits, various observations were made and information was exchanged with experts.

As a result of other work done in the project;

• Capacity building and awareness-raising on cooperation processes in the region,
• Positive and negative aspects regarding the current situation of the red meat sector were put forward,
• Determination of strategies for the Red Meat Sector for Erzurum Province and its Hinterland,
• And finally, the cooperation processes required within the framework of the Red Meat Sector strategies identified were put forward and a structure was proposed for the cooperation models that emerged.