Financial Profitability and Resource Use Efficiency of Broiler Farming in a Selected Area of Bangladesh

Asma Akter; Jahangir Alam; M. K. Majumder; Fazlul Hoque; Sauda Afrin Anny

Asma Akter Department of Management and Finance, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Jahangir Alam Former Director General, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh
M. K. Majumder Department of Agricultural Economics, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Fazlul Hoque Department of Agribusiness and Marketing, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sauda Afrin Anny Department of Agribusiness and Marketing, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Keywords: Broiler Production, Financial Profitability, Resource Use Efficiency.

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to investigate the socio-economic characteristics of the broiler farmers, to estimate the costs, returns and profitability of broiler enterprise and to determine the contribution of the key variables to the production of broiler farms in some selected locations of Dhaka district, Bangladesh. It was mainly done on primary data which were collected through face to face interview from the respondents of broiler production in 2014. 80 broiler farm owners were selected by using simple sample randomly technique. Both tabular and econometric techniques were used to find out the results. The results of the analysis showed that on average total cost of broilers per farm per year was Tk. 301142.103. It was found that the variable cost per farm per year stood at Tk. 238728.73 which accounted for 79.28 percent of total cost. The total fixed cost per farm per year accounted to Tk. 62413.373. The net return over total cost per farm per year was calculated at Tk. 130257.90. The benefit cost ratios of broiler farming were 1.80 on variable cost basis and 1.43 on total cost basis. The functional analysis indicated that most of the selected variables had significant impact on the production of broiler farms. This study also identified some economic, marketing, technical, social and natural problems in broiler production. Finally, on the basis of findings of this study, some recommendations were made for the development of broiler farming in Bangladesh.

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