Commercial Smallholder Laying Hens: Production Efficiency And Intensity of Input Use According to Production Phase in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Daftar Isi:
- The study was aimed to analyse production efficiency and intensity of input use according to production phase in commercial smallholders laying hens (CSLH) in South Sulawesi, Indonesia in three consecutive months. Production phase was determined by the hens’ age,i.e. 5-12 months in Phase I and 13-18 months in Phase II. Data were collected from a survey to 35 and 32 CSLH samples from Phase I and II, respectively. Daily egg production was calculated in percent (%), the main ration and feed additive was expressed in Indonesian currency unit (IDR) and the labor and experience were stated in hour/day and year, respectively. Data were subject to Cobb-Douglass production function (CD) analysis using SPSS 16 software. Results showed that production efficiency of Phase I and II hit Increasing Return to Scale (IRT) and a 1% proportional increase of total input would improve egg production in Phase I and II by 3.07% and 2.06%, respectively(>1%). Intercept of production function in Phase I (61.60) was higher than that of Phase II (52.60). The intensity of main ration in Phase I and II was still underutilized; therefore, increasing the input potentially improved egg production. The intensity of feed additive in Phase I was optimum but overutilized in Phase II. Labor and experience inputs were overutilized in both Phases. In conclusion, CSLH efficiency in Phase I and II in South Sulawesi was subject to optimization by increasing the main ration input and decreasing labor and working experience input.