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English :

An analytical economic study for cost production and efficiency of foreign fattening poultry farms in Gharbia Governorate

Arabic :

دراسة اقتصادية تحليلية لتكاليف إنتاج وكفاءة مزارع دجاج التسمين الأجنبي بمحافظة الغربية

Abstract

Poultry is an important industry for food security which has achieved self-sufficiency for lacad consumption of it's product and some exportation. This study related to different scales of farms the first less than 200.000 birds cycle and the second category more than 20.000. In two districts Qutoor and Santah in Gharbia Governorate. The results of The study: The weighted average of the total cost for the first and second scales about 900 and 869 pounds one hundred kilograms live weight respectively the average revenue increase in the second category about four pounds than first category. the study showed that the average of net revenue in Qutoor district was about 67 and 102 pounds per/one hundred kilograms for the first and second category respectively. while it was about 94 and 144 pounds per/ one hundred kilograms for the first and second category in Santah district respectively. the benefit cost ratio for Qutoor district for the first and the second scales was about 1.07 and 1.12 , while it was about 1.11 and 1.17 in Santah district respectively. The average cost for produce one kilogram live meet in Qutoor district was about 9 and 8.69 pounds for the first and the second category respectively while it was 8.98 and 8.62 in Santah district respectively. In the winter season, for the first category in Qutoor it were 12.2 , 42.3 , 52.6 tons per/cycle while it were 7.9 , 7.5 , 9.14 tons per/cycle in Santah respectively. The second category, the actual, optimum and the size of production which maximize profit in the first scale for Qutoor were 49.2 , 57.4 , 65.2 tons per cycle and for Santah 42.9 , 49.7 , 62.3 tons per / cycle respectively. In the summer season the actual and the optimum and the size of production which maximize profit in the second category for Qutoor were about 29.7 , 42.8 , 48.2 tons per/ cycle, whereas that sizes for Santah were about 37.96, 39.4 , 40.5 tons per/cycle respectively. For the first category in Qutoor these sizes were about 6.13 , 9.8 , 10.6 tons per/cycle and in Santah it were about 6.8, 9.6, 11.1 tons per/ cycle. Recommendation : - It is necessary for educating and guiding breeders and owners of foreign poultry fattening farms with expand the size of the farm so, that they realize economies of scale, as the larger farms more profitable and less in the cost of production.

Publication year

2010

Pages

242-264

Availability location

معهد بحوث الانتاج الحيوانى-شارع نادى الصيد- الدقى- الجيزة

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Organization Name

Animal Production Research Institute (APRI)

serial title

Proceeding of the 3rd Animal Wealth Research Conference in the Middle East & North Africa Foreign Agricultural Relations (FAR), Egypt

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