Efficacité technique des exploitations avicoles productrices d’œufs au sud du Bénin

Pougoue, Emile Blaise Siewe; Manu, I. N.; Adédédji, Innocent Labiyi; Bokossa, Thiburce

doi:10.19182/remvt.31728

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“…The very few studies carried out on farm performance in Benin targeted all agricultural sustainability dimensions (Agossou et al, 2019). However, most of them focused on crop production (Batonon-Alavo et al, 2015;Pougoué et al, 2019). To date, no sustainability assessment studies have been carried out in the smallholder livestock sector in general and in the rabbit production sector specifically.…”

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Typology and sustainability assessment of rabbit farms in the urban and peri-urban areas of Southern Benin (West Africa)

2020

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<p>Analysis of production systems allows scientists to identify their weaknesses, particularly concerning production practices which require improvements at economic, social, and environmental levels. The present study aimed to characterise rabbit farms in the urban and peri-urban areas of South Benin and assess their sustainability using the DIAMOND method, a multicriteria sustainability assessment tool. Ninety-eight farmers were surveyed and individually interviewed. Categorical principal component and twostep cluster analyses were performed on information collected for a typology of farms. Sustainability scores were generated using the scoring scale of the DIAMOND tool. Five types of rabbit farms were identified as follows: modern extensive polyculture, traditional extensive monoculture, modern extensive monoculture, semi-intensive polyculture, and traditional extensive polyculture. Overall, all the rabbit farms had good scores for the economic sustainability pillar but were socially limited. They were all similar in their economic and environmental performances. In particular, semi-intensive farms were the most socially sustainable, whereas traditional farms (either in polyculture or monoculture) showed the lowest social performances. Furthermore, there were significant differences between farms for criteria relating to consumers’ demands and resource use. Semi-intensive farms responded best to consumers’ demands, whereas the traditional polyculture farm type was the most resource use efficient. Overall, in the urban and peri-urban areas of South Benin, the most sustainable rabbit farms were semi-intensive. Irrespective of farm type, positive coefficients of correlations were recorded among the three pillars of sustainability, being significant between the social and economic pillars on one hand, and between the social and environmental pillars on the other hand. These results suggest that efforts to improve farm social performance would also positively affect their economic and environmental performances and improve overall farm sustainability.</p>

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Typology and sustainability assessment of rabbit farms in the urban and peri-urban areas of Southern Benin (West Africa)

2020

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Scale economies and total factor productivity growth on poultry egg farms in Benin: a stochastic frontier approach

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The study examines economies of scale and sources of total factor productivity growth on poultry farms producing table eggs in Benin Republic. We use panel data on commercial poultry farms from 2010 to 2018, and the flexible translog production functions to estimate a stochastic frontier and economies of scale. The results showed that there were significant economies of scale to be exploited, and the average productivity growth rate was decreasing of 5.09% over the study period. This deterioration was mainly because of the decline of technical efficiency growth rate (2.16%) and technology growth rate (2.67%). Although the returns to scale (1.31) were increasing, their effects on productivity during the study period were negative (−0.74%). As implications, policy makers may encourage the increasing of the “size” of poultry farms and act on the sources of productivity growth identified in this study to increase the productivity of commercial poultry farms to meet the demand of table egg in Benin.

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Inefficiency of laying hens farms in Benin: an input directional distance function approach

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Adégbola,

Fatunbi

et al. 2024

Agric & Food Secur

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Background In Benin, the productivity of poultry production systems is a major concern. This paper aims first to estimate the cost, technical and allocative inefficiencies of modern and traditional poultry production systems, and then to determine the factors that influence these types of inefficiencies. Results The study reveals significant cost inefficiencies, with just 9% and 18% of traditional and modern systems, respectively, being cost-efficient, highlighting the necessity of distinguishing production systems due to different operational requirements, particularly for modern systems. Addressing these inefficiencies requires crucial measures such as providing training, accessible credit, and mortality rate reduction to boost local production, with tailored support for small-scale farmers. Conclusions The poultry sector’s intense competition and the decline in local production, particularly among small-scale farmers, are primarily linked to high domestic production costs and local farmers' poor performance. Our study unveils substantial cost inefficiencies in both traditional and modern poultry farming systems, emphasizing the imperative to differentiate interventions based on their distinct operational requirements.

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Efficacité technique des exploitations avicoles productrices d’œufs au sud du Bénin

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Typology and sustainability assessment of rabbit farms in the urban and peri-urban areas of Southern Benin (West Africa)

Typology and sustainability assessment of rabbit farms in the urban and peri-urban areas of Southern Benin (West Africa)

Scale economies and total factor productivity growth on poultry egg farms in Benin: a stochastic frontier approach

Inefficiency of laying hens farms in Benin: an input directional distance function approach

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