Economic analysis of broiler under temperate conditions of Kashmir valley

A study was undertaken to analyze the economic analysis of investment and income pattern in broiler production. Three groups containing 51 broiler entrepreneurs as per flock size were studied. The average bird size of Group I was 3147.96 followed by 8666.66 in Group II and 13481.47 in Group III. The overall average investment came to be Rs.20.44 lakhs. The overall per farm cost of production of broiler per farm was worked out to be Rs.8.67 lakhs. The overall percentage mortality worked out to be 3.92 per cent with monetary loss as Rs.34.22 thousand per hatch. After mortality, the left over production came to be 6997.96 birds with the net income of Rs.2.9 6 lakhs, gross margin of Rs.4.45 and family labour income of Rs.2.11 lakhs. The benefit-cost ratio was worked out to be 1.37 over cost C₁, 1.28 over cost C₂, and over C₃ it came to be 1.16 for overall farm. It was thus concluded that the broiler rearing was profitable in the region.