Maya Al-Abdala*1, Safwan Abou Assaf 1, Afraa Sallowm2
(1). Socio Economic Directorate, Swaida Research Center, General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research (GCSAR), Damascus, Syria.
(2). Department Of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Damascus, Syria.
(*Corresponding author: Maya Al-Abdala . E-Mail: mayaabdala6@gmail.comm).
Received: 16/11/2019 Accepted: 28/12/2020
Abstract
The research aimed to identify the most important economic factors affecting the production of broiler in As- Swaida under the current production conditions, using a questionnaire targeting broiler farmers in As- Swaida in 2018 season, through a random sample of 50% of the studied statistical community, where the Cop-Douglas function was adopted to estimate the broiler production function in As- Swaida governorate. أThe results showed that the independent variables that were included in the model explained 96% of the changes in the total broiler production, where the parameters of the actual number of chicks, number of bags and the amount of drinking water were positive, which is consistent with the economic logic. The production elasticities of these variables indicated that each increase of 1% leads to an increase in output of 0.824, 0.163 and 0.169, respectively, while the loss of chicks negatively affected production. أThe return to capacity had shown to be greater than one, which indicated that this return was taking an increasing trend, which indicated that production was still in the first stage of production, and that any increase in the operating rates of some of these factors will lead to a larger relative increase in production. As the economic efficiency was achieved in terms of the number of chicks, where r is greater than one and therefore the addition of the element should be increased because there was an opportunity for additional profits, and unrealized for the elements of the number of sawdust and litter bags and the number of water trailers, because r less than one, and therefore the product should reduce the addition production component.
Keyword: Cobb-Douglas Function, Marginal Product, Elasticity, Economic Efficiency, Broiler.ms.
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