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Profitable Broiler Farming at the Villages of Khulna District in Bangladesh

Farukul Islam
Dept.of Animal Breeding and Genetics.Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202

Bashna Akther
Dept.of Livestock Services, Farmgate, Dhaka 1215

Anguara Khatun
Dept.of Poultry Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202

Md. Harun-Or-Rashid
PRAN Dairy Ltd, PRAN-RFL Centre, Badda, Dhaka 1212

Md. Shamsul Hossain
Dept.of Animal Breeding and Genetics.Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Data from a total of 49 broiler farmers in the villages of Khulna in Bangladesh were collected to seek suggestions from the farmers to explore the knowledge how to make broiler farming a profitable and sustainable enterprise. Many (40.8%) of the broiler farmers were secondary school certificate holder and took broiler farming as their main occupation (59.2%) and most of them (71.4%) received training in broiler farming. Most of the broiler farms were small in scale of operation and majority of the farmers (73.5%) reported high price of day old chicks at their end. However, 51% farmers informed that Marek’s disease vaccines were administered at hatchery by the day old chick producing company and most of the farmers were using Newcastle Disease and Infectious Bursal Disease Vaccine in their farm. All farmers were brooding their broiler bird for a period of 5 to 7 days and most of them using electric brooder and hurricane lantern was using for standby power supplier in all enumerated broiler farm. Farmer and his family members were the main worker in the operation and all farmers sold their live broiler bird to the traders at their farm gate. Live broiler’s body weight at marketing, feed conversion ratio, day old chick weight, mortality and average daily body weight gain were 1.73 kg, 1.44, 48.39± 0.39 g, 4.64% and 50.39 g, respectively. Feed price per kg, day old chick price per piece and per kg live broiler price were 45.56, 56.90± 0.56 and 127.35± 0.92 Bangladeshi Taka (BDT), respectively. Present study explored the opinion of farmers, which suggested that, providing the broiler farmers with bank loan in a lower rate of interest, making loan easy and available, supplying feed from factory to the farmers directly in credit and stabilizing market price of day old chicks, feed and live broiler at marketing age could make the broiler farming a profitable and sustainable enterprise and which could contribute lot more in rural economy of Bangladesh.

Keywords: Broiler production, Profit, Production performance, Farmer suggestions

Location: 27 villages under 2 upazilas of Khulna district in Bangladesh

Start Date: 00-04-2015

End Date: 00-05-2015

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Profitability

Objectives:

The major study objectives of this study was designed to seek suggestions from the marginal broiler farmers at village level to make the enterprise a profitable and sustainable.

Methodology:

A total of 49 broiler farmers were enumerated at 27 villages under 2 upazilas of Khulna district in Bangladesh from April 2015 to May 2015. A pre-prescribed questionnaire was used to collect the information. Data were collected from door to door visit in farmers point. Data on farmers’ characters, farm size and farm management system, production parameters and farmers suggestions were documented. Observation numbers in different parameters was not equal. So, the statistical design of this study was unbalanced factorial in nature. Collected data were analyzed for having mean value, frequency and percentage through descriptive statistics menu under the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 14.0 (SPSS, 2005). To calculate FCR (feed conversion ratio), Feed cost for per kg broiler production (FCBP), Mortality in percent and ADG (average daily body weight gain) following formulae were used:

FCR = Total feed consumed up to age of marketing in kg/Total live body weight of broiler bird at the age of marketing in kg

FCBP= FCR ×Per kg feed price in BDT

Mortality % = Number of day old chicks housed-Number of live broiler birds sold at marketing/Number of day old chicks housed x 100

ADG = (Live body weight at marketing in g -DOC weighting)/Marketing age in days

Source of Information: J. Biosci. Agric. Res. 08(01): 678-684

Article Link (Online Journal): DOI: 10.18801/jbar.080116.80

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Achievement/Findings:

Broiler farming was the main occupation of majority of the studied farmers and most of them were secondary school certificate holder and nearly everyone had experiences in broiler farming of about 2 to 5 years. Most of the farmers received training and the main contributing institute was government youth development centre. Small scale broiler farmers were claiming high price of DOC, though most of the broiler farmers were working in the farm with their family members. Farmers sold their live broiler to the traders at farm gate. However,farmers marketed the live broilers at the age of 33.37± 0.30 days and average daily body weight gain was 50.39 g per bird. To make the broiler farming a profitable and sustainable one, farmers made some suggestions such as, a) providing them with bank loan in a lower rate of interest, b) make loan easy and available for farmers, c) supply feed from factory to the farmers directly in credit, and d) stabilizing market of day old chicks, feed and live broiler at marketing age.

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