OZET Bu arastirma ile once Turkiye ve Kuzeydogu Anadolu Bolgesinin hayvanci!lk sorunlart incelenmis, daha sonra Erzurum Et Kombinasmm faaliyetleri analiz edilmistir. Uretim faktorlerinden en iyi bir sekilde istifade etmek amaci ile Kombina faaliyetlerine dogrusal programlama uygulanarak, kurul~ icin optimum isletme plani tesbit edilmistir. Hayvancilik ve bOlge ile ilgili veriler, bu alanda bolgede yapilan arastirmalardan ve istatistiklerden; programlamaya esas olan veriler ise, Kombinanin 1967-69 do'nemi faaliyet neticelerinden temin edilmistir. Halen Kombinada 6 uretim dairesi mevcut bulunmaktadir. Bunlara ait toplan: i§gucu kapasitesi yilda 52640 erkek isgucunun (447440 saat) olup makina kapasitesi ise 2380 saattir. Kombinada 1967-69 donemi ortalamasi, yillik toplam masraf miktari 70.9 milyon TL. olup, bunun % 84'u (59.8 milyon TL.) degisen % 16's1 (11.1 milyon TL.) ise sabit masraflardan meydana gelmistir. Kombina 1967-69 doneminde yaptigi faaliyetler sonucu, yilda ortalama 0.6 milyon TL. (1963 fiyatlari'ile) zarar etmistir. Zarann buyuk bir kismi govde et satislarmdan ileri gelmistir. Bu zararda, Kombinanin tam kapasite ile calismamasi,. sabit masraf oranin yuksekligi ve cesitli kuruluslari (ordu ve diger kurumlar) himaye etmek gayesi ile maliyetlerin altinda yapilan satislann buyuk etkisi olmustur. The Meat Processing Plants' Functions in Development of the North Eastem Anatolia's Livestock and The Analysis of the Erzuri.m Meat Processing Plant This studyanalized, first, Tukey's and te North Eastem Anatolian's livestock problems and secondly operations at the Erzurum Meat Processing Plant Inorder to determine, the most prdifitable uses of productive rekources a linear programmingtechnique was to the operations of the Meat Processing Plant and consequently, optimum plan' was optained. The required data for the livestock operations in the area was optained from the published statistics' and research bulletins. On the other hand, data on which program built was optained from the Meat Processing Plant's records during 1967-69. At the present, there are six production departments a the Processing Plant. The yearly total capacities of all these departments are 52640 man worting days (or 4477440 hours) for labor and 2380 hours for machine capacity. At the Processing Plant based on the period 1967-69, the yearly total expenses was TL. m:.I1ions, of which TL. 59.8 millions (% 84) was variable costs and remaining TL. 11.1 millons (% 16) was fixed costs) Accoiding to 1967-69 recoids, the Processing P1ant had a yearIy total lost aboiit TL 0.6 millionx (in terms of 1963 prices). The largest part of this lost was due to wholesale meat selling. Sellig undercosts to soe instutes for protecting purposes is another explanation of the lost. Programining indicates that productive resourees are not employed at the optimum levels. Disposed capacites certain resources are quite high. Therefore it is dear per unit costs might be significantly reduced by reorganazing productive resources, As a resuIt of reorganization, the production costs per unit will be reducet between 1.37 % and 9.60 %, this intum means that about TL. 2.1 millions (3 %) of the yearly expenses will be saved (in terms of 1969 prices). Censequantly, a total benefits of TL. LO mllion over production costs will be rea1ized, each year. Piograinming solutions indicate that beef and insteant skin productions are not economic activities. Sausage, graded beef, fjred meat activities should be substituted for wholesale beef activity. Insteant skin actvity should be repla~ ced by sheep skin as salted sheep skin activity.