GENERAL ECONOMICAL STUDY FOR SOME PRODUCTIVE AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF EGYPTIAN BUFFALOES IN RESEARCH FARM

HASSAN, HODA Z.; MOURAD, KAWTHAR A.; SHARAF, MOHAMED F.; KOTBY, ELSAYED A.

doi:10.21608/ejar.2005.247835

GENERAL ECONOMICAL STUDY FOR SOME PRODUCTIVE AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF EGYPTIAN BUFFALOES IN RESEARCH FARM

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agricultural, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

² Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agricultural, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

³ Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

10.21608/ejar.2005.247835

Abstract

Annual buffalo records during a period of 1989-1994 of Mehallet Moussa, Animal Production Experimental farm, Ministry of Agriculture, were used in this study. Results of general economical study showed that, feed stuffs have the highest relative importance of costs (63.10%), followed by permanent labour (26.4%), net revenue were faced some losses in the last period . Referring to some productive and reproductive characteristics affecting the general economical status in the research farm, results obtained indicated that there was a lower productive and reproductive performance in Egyptian buffalo research farm, such as longer age to first calving in heifers, longer calving interval and lower milk yield which led to the obtained loss.