الفهرس 
تطور الانتاج الداجنى فى مصر ومحافظة كفر الشيخيوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
 |  | from | 223 |  |  |
| | | from | 223 | | |
المستخلص
Poultry production sector plays an important role in the national Egyptian economy, it contributes about 25% of the animal production value and about 10% of the agricultural production value in Egypt in 1996, a total value of broiler reached about 2.6 billion Pounds represents about 46% of the poultry production value in the same year. The main objective of this study is to determine the productive efficiency of broiler farms in Kafr El-sheikh governorate to Ihow the efficiency of allocating input resources of these farms and hence the optiinuin scale of such farms can be estimated, also the study aims to shed light on varicus problems facing poultry industry in this governorate and suggested solutions. A stratified random sample of 140 farms has been selected represent about 43% of the total number of working farms in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, 135 farms has been selected from the private sector and 5 farms from the governmental sector. Simple and multiple regression technique have been applied to estimate the production and cost fimctions. The study revealed that diet quantity and chicks number are the most effective factors followed by veterinary cares and farm labour number, also, the study indicated that farms of scale two and three of the private sector have been working in the second stage of the diminishing return law with elasticities of 0.988 and 0.990 respectively, while farms of scale one has been working in the first stage with an elasticity of 1.03 The results of the estimated polynomial equation of the study in the private sector fams revealed the positive relationship between quantity produced and factor inputs of number of chicks, diet quantity, number of farm labours. The efficiency criteria of these three factor inputs are 2.01, 1.2 1 and 7.24 respectively. This means that producers can achieve more profits when they increase such factor inputs till they reach equality between value of marginal product and input price (opportunity costs of factor input). The study also indicated that costs of diet and the value of chicks together constitute about 85% of the total variable costs or about 82% of the total costs, while the cost of the produced ton of the alive chicken reached about 3.96 thousand pounds in the first scale and reached about 3.72, 3.7 1 thousand pounds in the secnd and the third scales respectively in the private sector farms with a net profits reached 419 pounds in farms of the third scale, and it is considered to be the highest Value among all scales. Comparing results of private sector farms and governmental farms indicates that the ratio of the total revenue to the total costs of the two sector farms reached 109% and 10 1 % respectively while the ratio of the total variable costs to total revenue are 88% and 94% respectively. This indicates that private sector farms are more efficient than cooperation governmental sector which recommends the recent governmental policy of privatizing such sector. The cost function analysis of the study also pointed out that the optimum scale which maximizes normal profits reached about 26 thousand hens, while the optimum scale which maximizes super normal profits reached about 44 thousand hens in the private sector farms compared with 53 thousand, and 53.5 thousand hens respectively. The study furthermore revealed many obsticles facing this industry. The priorities of such obsticles in the private sector are chick problems followed by marlteting problem, then diet problems and fanancial and finally veterinary care, problems, while in the governmental and cooperative farms the major problelns facing this industry are chick and marltetii~g problem in the first place followed by management and laboring problem in the third and fourth place respectively. For policy implications the study recommends the importance of the availability of chicks during the whole year, then diet and veterinary-care must be available when required, also such industry must be will organized.