TITLE:
Optimization Model of Small-Scale Chicken Production in Cambodia
AUTHORS:
Darith Siek, Shiwei Xu, Wen Yu, Abdul-Gafar Ahmed, Chamroeun Din
KEYWORDS:
Chicken, Production Scale, Optimization Model, Cambodia
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.4 No.5,
May
31,
2016
ABSTRACT: These study attempts analyze the chicken production scale in Battambang
of Cambodian among the rural household rice farmers using Optimization Model.
The study explains the explicit opportunity cost of not investing time and
other reliable resources in the chicken (courtyard) production is the income
the farmer would have gained competitively in the market price of chicken. The
results suggest that two out of 6 districts have the potential to obtain
optimal scale by increasing chicken head counts. High chicken death rate was
detected in the region thus the authors suggests a subsidy policy for disease
control should be provided to affected region or high risk region; and locally,
there should be broader extension services orienting farmers on the proper
management of small scale chicken production.