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An Economic Analysis of Poultry Egg Production in Nepal

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Rajani Osti
College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, People`s Republic of China
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Deyi Zhou
College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, People`s Republic of China
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Virendra Singh
Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India
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Dinesh Bhattarai
College of Animal Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, People`s Republic of China
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Harshika Chaudhary
Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India
Published on: July 15, 2016
DOI 10.3923/pjn.2016.715.724
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Poultry is one of the fastest growing segments of the agricultural economy, particularly in developing countries. By using different econometric models, this study estimated the production efficiency and effectiveness of poultry farming. The objective was to examine the socio-economic status, estimate the costs and returns and production efficiency in production of egg. A stratified random sampling technique was applied. Feed conversion ratio, egg-feed price ratio and benefit-cost ratio were analyzed statistically to estimate the production efficiency. Various social factors like age of farmers, family size and number of laying birds were found significantly affecting the poultry business. Various investment patterns in farms their respective values and worked out the level of significance was analyzed. The analysis of net return was differed significantly with farm size with higher net return in large farm. This study concluded that large farm has higher mass of egg production and lower feed conversion rate indicating higher profit margin with enlarge in farm size.

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Agricultural economy, cost of production, poultry, socio-economic status

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Osti, R., Zhou, D., Singh, V., Bhattarai, D., & Chaudhary, H. (2016). An Economic Analysis of Poultry Egg Production in Nepal. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition, 15(8), 715–724. https://doi.org/10.3923/pjn.2016.715.724
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