Kamruzzaman M, Islam Shamima, Rana Md Jaber
Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, 1706, Bangladesh.
Department of Agricultural Economics, Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna, 9100, Bangladesh.
Heliyon. 2021 May 27;7(5):e07152. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07152. eCollection 2021 May.
Financial and factor demand analysis of broiler production has been estimated in this paper using a farm survey data of 210 farmers from four major broiler producing areas (i.e., Dhaka, Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Chittagong) of Bangladesh. Findings showed that broiler farming incurred most of its cost from its operating input, mainly feed. Broiler farming was financially profitable, but the performance of Mymensingh division was comparatively low, arising from a high unit cost of production and low unit price selling than the others. The net return was highest in Dhaka division, while Rajshahi division showed the highest ratio in returns on investment. However, in terms of cost (variable) and net return of broiler farming, no significant difference among the study areas was observed. The value of own price elasticity for feed, chick price, and labour price were negative and inelastic, which were -0.00249, -0.05718, and -0.13101, respectively. Besides, a complementary relationship was found between feed and day-old chick and feed and labour while day-old chick and labour were substitutes. The study also revealed that cross price elasticity was highly inelastic, and changes in the prices of inputs did not result in massive changes in the quantity demanded of other inputs for broiler farming.
本文利用来自孟加拉国四个主要肉鸡产区（即达卡、拉杰沙希、迈门辛和吉大港）的210名农户的农场调查数据，对肉鸡生产进行了财务和要素需求分析。研究结果表明，肉鸡养殖的大部分成本来自运营投入，主要是饲料。肉鸡养殖在财务上是盈利的，但迈门辛分区的表现相对较低，原因是其单位生产成本高，销售单价低于其他分区。达卡分区的净收益最高，而拉杰沙希分区的投资回报率最高。然而，就肉鸡养殖的成本（可变成本）和净收益而言，各研究区域之间未观察到显著差异。饲料、雏鸡价格和劳动力价格的自身价格弹性值均为负且缺乏弹性，分别为-0.00249、-0.05718和-0.13101。此外，研究发现饲料与一日龄雏鸡、饲料与劳动力之间存在互补关系，而一日龄雏鸡与劳动力之间是替代关系。该研究还表明，交叉价格弹性高度缺乏弹性，投入品价格的变化并未导致肉鸡养殖其他投入品需求量的大幅变化。
