Khetam Edrees *(1), Ghassan Al Abdallah (2), Nisreen edrees(1) and Mohammad Anwar Abdul ghani(2)
(1). Economic and Social Studies Department, Agriculture Research Center Homs, General Commission for Scientific and Agricultural Research (GCSAR), Syria.
(2). Agriculture Research Center Homs, General Commission for Scientific and Agricultural Research (GCSAR), Syria.
(*Correspoding author: Dr. Khetam edrees. E-Mail: vera_yahoo@hotmail.com).
Received: 24/03/2021 Accepted: 29/07/2021
Abstract
This research aimed to study the structure of breeding sheep costs in Homs’s province in 2015; to achieve its goals, it adopted a standard, economic, statistical analysis of primary data by a questionnaire of a sample had been taken from sheep breeders following six possessory categories. The descriptive analysis results showed that the fodder cost was the highest, whereas the depreciation value was the lowest in proportion to the total costs. The average cost amounted of breeding of one animal was (5007.35) S.P The meat production return was the highest. The total production cost’s function was estimated, and derived with a view to reaching the achieved capacity of the economic efficiency. The flock’s optimal size achieved (100) % of the economic scales amounted to 700 heads with an expected total cost of 3020250 SP. The economic capacity curve increases by the flock size increasing to a maximum of (100) % of the flock’s optimal size, which minimizes the costs; then, it starts to decline as production gets higher than that .The economies of capacity increases as long as the total average cost decreases; that means the breeder can reduce the average cost of production one head by expanding the size of the flock produced; then, the flock was divided according to the productive ewes percentage into four categories: ≤40%, (40 to 49)%, (50 to 59) %, ≥60% of productive ewes. The results showed that the category’s return which had ≥60%, was extremely higher among the rest categories and the more the percentage decrease, the more return decline; where the lowest was in the category contained less than 40% of productive ewes.
Keywords: Descriptive Economic Analysis, Production Costs, Optimal Production, Economic Efficiency, Economic of Capacity, Productive Ewes.
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