The economics of producing chicken meat in Iraq for 2016 (Wasit Governorate case study)

Raad Aidan Obaid, Dr.

	The economics of producing chicken meat in Iraq for 2016 (Wasit Governorate case study)
Iraqi Journal For Economic Sciences
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 55, 2017, Pages 53-69
Author
Dr. Raad Aidan Obaid
Abstract
Constitutes Livestock's an important aspect in the agricultural sector, as no less important than vegetable side for being a main source, of food sources and a source for the provision of animal protein digestible to humans, where the percentage of protein in the meat of livestock and poultry is reach to 20%, while the percentage of protein in the fruit ( 0 0.7%) and vegetables (0.1%). The most animal products are raw mterials used in the industrial sector. Although the development of the poultry industry in the country, and increase the number of projects producing chicken meat, but they are not able to meet the domestic demand for poultry meat, and bridging the gap between domestic production and demand. That forced the state to allow the import of large quantities of this item the annual demand size of this item has been estimated (2015) up to 408 thousand tons per year. The size of the gap between expected domestic consumption and production has been estimated up to 300 thousand tons per year. The problems suffered by the meat chicken breading projects are an obstacle to development, especially after 2003, and stopped entirely state support, which led to rising prices of production inputs, as well as flooding the Iraqi with this Item. It was necessary to focus on studying the economics of broiler production in Iraq down to achieve the objective of the study. The study results came to find the optimal combination of capital (63 589) thousand dinars and work (757) hours of work, while the optimal production rate is (42.4 tons). While minimizing the costs of production, which is the rate (39.3 tonnes), and at this size, the best number of birds is (23.117) bird. The production volume which is maximize the profit (52.4 tons). The price, at which the producer is accepted to display his goods is (2.785) thousand dinars per kg, as well as cost flexibility, which was (0.9). it shows that production is subject to increasing returns ,i.e ,achieving an increase in production, relative at a lower cost. The recommendations of the research was certainly on the expansion of investment projects of chicken meat , increased government support and the granting of soft loans and protect local product from foreign competition, and increase awareness among educators in the use of modern means in broiler breeding.

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