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Performance of broiler contract farmers: A case study in Perak, Malaysia

Contract broiler farming is one the system used to increase poultry production in Malaysia.Broiler contract farmers (BCF) participate in this system for having some benefits.This paper has evaluated economic performance of the BCFs in Perak.An economic evaluation of 60 BCFs was conducted in Perak to...

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Main Authors: Majid, Rasak, Hassan, Sallahuddin
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2014
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S Agriculture (General)
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/12666/1/1-s2.0-S22.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.umkpro.2014.07.003
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spelling my.uum.repo.126662016-04-18T01:59:20Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/12666/ Performance of broiler contract farmers: A case study in Perak, Malaysia Majid, Rasak Hassan, Sallahuddin S Agriculture (General) Contract broiler farming is one the system used to increase poultry production in Malaysia.Broiler contract farmers (BCF) participate in this system for having some benefits.This paper has evaluated economic performance of the BCFs in Perak.An economic evaluation of 60 BCFs was conducted in Perak to determine the performance of the system using economic performance analysis.Panel regression model was used in the analysis. This model involves price per bird (PRM) as dependent variable and size of farm (SOF), feed conversion rate (FCR), average body weight(ABW), average marketing age (AMA), mortality rate (MOR), and rearing housing system (DU).The results show that all variables, except SOF, are significantly influence the performance of BCF at five percent level of significance. Elsevier B.V. 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/12666/1/1-s2.0-S22.pdf Majid, Rasak and Hassan, Sallahuddin (2014) Performance of broiler contract farmers: A case study in Perak, Malaysia. UMK Procedia, 1. pp. 18-25. ISSN 2214-0115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.umkpro.2014.07.003 doi:10.1016/j.umkpro.2014.07.003
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic S Agriculture (General)
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Majid, Rasak
Hassan, Sallahuddin
Performance of broiler contract farmers: A case study in Perak, Malaysia
description Contract broiler farming is one the system used to increase poultry production in Malaysia.Broiler contract farmers (BCF) participate in this system for having some benefits.This paper has evaluated economic performance of the BCFs in Perak.An economic evaluation of 60 BCFs was conducted in Perak to determine the performance of the system using economic performance analysis.Panel regression model was used in the analysis. This model involves price per bird (PRM) as dependent variable and size of farm (SOF), feed conversion rate (FCR), average body weight(ABW), average marketing age (AMA), mortality rate (MOR), and rearing housing system (DU).The results show that all variables, except SOF, are significantly influence the performance of BCF at five percent level of significance.
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author Majid, Rasak
Hassan, Sallahuddin
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Hassan, Sallahuddin
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title Performance of broiler contract farmers: A case study in Perak, Malaysia
title_short Performance of broiler contract farmers: A case study in Perak, Malaysia
title_full Performance of broiler contract farmers: A case study in Perak, Malaysia
title_fullStr Performance of broiler contract farmers: A case study in Perak, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Performance of broiler contract farmers: A case study in Perak, Malaysia
title_sort performance of broiler contract farmers: a case study in perak, malaysia
publisher Elsevier B.V.
publishDate 2014
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/12666/1/1-s2.0-S22.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.umkpro.2014.07.003
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