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Production and Profitability of Small Scale Broiler Farming in Selected Areas of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh

G. Rabbani*
Department of Economics, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, Bangladesh.

B. Ahmad
MSS Student
Department of Economics, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, Bangladesh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This study focuses on the production and profitability of the broiler farming by using Cobb-Douglas production function and Benefit-Cost analysis. For this purpose, data were collected from 50 broiler farmers living in Birol and Sadar Upazila of Dinajpur district in 2020. The result revealed that involvement in broiler production seems to be profitable for the small-scale broiler farmers for the study areas notifying by net return as Tk. 6681 with a benefit-cost ratio greater than one, whereas the gross return was Tk.193367. The net return over the total cost is 0.075. The production function resulted that feed, medicines and human labor had significant positive effect on production of broiler whereas only rental cost had negative effect. Training had a highly significant (p<0.01) positive effect on production of broiler. Therefore, it can be recommended that training and proper use of drugs and medicine should be encouraged because of their significant impact. Government and NGOs should also arrange more training for improving broiler production in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Benefit-cost analysis, Broiler, Broiler production, Market price, Profitability.

Location: Two Upazilas of Dinajpur district, which are Dinajpur sadar and Biral

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Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Broiler, Profitability

Objectives:

This study signifies profitability of broiler farming in the selected areas of Dinajpur district especially in Sadar and Birol upazila renowned for poultry production in this district.

Methodology:

Study areas and data collection Mainly primary data were used in this study. This present study is conducted in two Upazilas of Dinajpur district, which are Dinajpur Sadar and Biral where about 84% of data were collected from several villages of Biral and the rest were collected from Dinajpur Sadar. This was happened due to the large sample availability in Biral. It was impossible to interview all the Broiler farmers in the sample areas due to limitations of time and resources. For this reason, reasonable sizes of sample farmers were chosen which could at least satisfy the objectives set for the study. A multistage sampling procedure was followed to select broiler-farming areas. In the first stage, one broiler-growing district (Dinajpur) with two Upazilas (Dinajpur Sadar and Biral) was selected purposively. In the second stage, two villages from each Upazila were selected randomly. Finally, fifty-one sample broiler farms were visited during November 2020 to collect data for materializing our objectives.

Source of Information: Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 11(1): 69-73, June 2021 ISSN: 2224-0616

Article Link (Online Journal): DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/ijarit.v11i1.54468

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Achievement/Findings:

Broiler farming can be an alternative way to promote self-employment for Bangladesh whose has a huge young population to convert from unemployed to employed persons. This also reveals that the broiler farmers living in Dinajpur district are also profitable in their farming that is indicated by net return of Tk.13563 per shed production where net return over the total cost was indicated at 0.075. However, this study is limited to Dinajpur district and confined with only broiler farming for meat. This study can be further enhanced by studying for all categories of poultry for meat and the larger areas can be considered.

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