An Economic Study of the Production Efficiency of Livestock Feed Factories in Assiut Governorate | ||
| Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Volume 56, Issue 3, July 2025, Pages 320-330 PDF (493.26 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajas.2025.374015.1476 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Rasha A. Mahfuz* 1; Atif H. El-Sheemy2; Mohamed A.A. Nahoul2; Dalia H. El-Showeikh2; Gehan A. Mohamed1 | ||
| 1Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt. | ||
| 2Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Egypt suffers from an annual gap in feed materials estimated at 286 thousand tons as an average (2021-2023), where the data envelope method was used to measure the efficiency of using economic resources in livestock feed factories in Assiut Governorate in 2022, where technical efficiency was calculated according to fixed return on capacity, and it was found that about 77.27% of the total number of factories achieved the maximum efficiency. According to variable return on capacity, about 90.91% of the total factories achieved the maximum efficiency, also for livestock feed factories to achieve full economic efficiency at the current level of production, it is necessary to reduce the current use of each of the cost of mechanical labor, the amount of yellow corn, cottonseed extract, wheat bran, the amount of molasses, and corn bran by 0.15%, 28.73%, 16.10%, 14.11%, 7.88%, and 63.77% of the current use of each, respectively, while the cost of human labor and the amount of limestone must be increased by t 16.96% and 14.26% of the current use of each, respectively, without reducing the outputs of these factories. The study recommended the necessity of using production resources in a manner consistent with the factories’ production, which the study determined to achieve optimal efficiency, and educating those in charge of managing feed factories about distributing the economic resources used in feed production to the extent that achieves efficiency and studying the prices of feed production requirements when developing production plans. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Allocative efficiency; Data envelope; Economic efficiency; Technical efficiency | ||
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