ECONOMICS OF PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF POULTRY BROILERS IN RANGA REDDY DISTRICT OF TELANGANA
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2016
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PROFESSOR JAYASHANKAR TELANGANA STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD
Abstract
The present study “Economics of production and marketing of poultry
broilers in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana” was under taken to estimate
the costs and returns, asses the resource productivity, resource use efficiency
and returns to scale in broiler production.
The study was undertaken through a survey method by contacting 90
broiler farms, representing small, medium and large farms.
The average number of birds was 30,988.53 on small farms and
1,12,618.67 birds on large farms. The same was 67,378.67 on medium farms.
It was clear that the highest being on large farms indicating direct relationship
with the farm size.
The total cost of production per bird was maximum (Rs.156.13) in
small farms and minimum (Rs.134.27) in large farms, it was Rs.143.22 in
medium farms with an overall average of Rs.144.54 for the pooled farms
respectively. Production costs per bird indicated an inverse relationship with
the farm size.
Feed Conversion Ratio for small farms was 1.55, for medium farms
1.48, for large farms 1.49 and for pooled farms it was 1.51. The Feed
Conversion Ratio indicated that as the farm size increased the feed efficiency
also increased due to better management and techniques adopted by larger
farmers.
The break-even sale weight in kilograms per 1000 birds according to
prices realized was found to be more favorable, as the farm size increases. It is
also observed that the break-even sale weight in kilograms was also less than
the average weight in kilograms per 1000 birds for all farm size groups and is
inversely related to the farm size indicating higher profits for larger farms
compared to that of small and medium farms. This clearly revealed positive
returns in all the categories of farms.
The scale coefficients were 1.14, 1.40, 1.31 and 0.99 for the small,
medium, large and pooled farms respectively. The small, medium and large
size farms are indicating increasing returns to scale with all the inputs
included put together.
The marginal value product to factor cost ratios indicated inefficient use
of resources in broiler farming on all farms size groups. These ratios showed a
deviation from unity, profitability in broiler farming could be increased by
increasing the flock size and reducing the costs on feed.
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livestock, costs, productivity, markets, economics, manpower, profit, marketing, physical control, meat