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Is contract broiler farming exploitative to small farmers?

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Title Is contract broiler farming exploitative to small farmers?
 
Creator THAMIZHSELVI, R K
RAO, S V N
 
Subject Contract broiler farming; Contract farmers; Contract specifications; Integrator’s exploitation
 
Description A study of 49 contract broiler farmers under 4 leading integrators in and around Puducherry revealed that the contract is one sided favouring the integrator as the contract stipulates standards for the outputs from the farmer but it does not specify any standards for the inputs the integrator supplies such as weight of the day-old chick, quality standards for feed and medicines. The findings also indicated that the weight of the day-old chicks supplied was less than the standard weight of 40 g, an important cause for low body weight gain as well as high mortality. Although the integrators are bearing the risk of production and marketing, the contract broiler farming is exploitative as the integrators are paying on an average ` 4.61/bird, mostly on the basis of production cost. The integrators may do well by bearing the cost of the miscellaneous inputs being provided by the farmers and by taking feed conversion ratio as the basis for payment rather than production cost on which the farmer has very little control.
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
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Date 2010-12-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/2237
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 80, No 12 (2010)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/2237/562
 
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