THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF THE PROCESSING CHAINS OF DAIRY PRODUCTS IN FAYOUM GOVERNORATE

Document Type : Research articles.

Abstract

By studying the impact of farm size on the economic efficiency indicators; it
can be realized that the annual return on a head of a herd increases annually for small,
medium, and large scale farms by 12840, 13450, and 15000 EGP respectively. The
relative importance of different sources of income can be ranked as follows; selling
dairy products and selling non-dairy products. The returns on dairy products have
been estimated at 57.24%, 62.72%, and 63.97% for small, medium, and large scale
farms respectively. It can be mentioned also that the return on milk is positively
impacted by farm sizes where the value added per liter is 1.71, 1.82, and 2.04 for
small, medium, and large scale farms. The ratio of operating costs to the total revenue
is negatively impacted by farm sizes where the ratio is estimated at 77.2, 72.6, and
54.9 for small, medium, and large scale farms. As an overall conclusion it can be said
that the large farms would achieve better economic efficiency indicators.


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