Sustainable Livestock Farming for Improving Socio-Economic Condition

Abstract

Sustainability is the most effective concept to improve socioeconomic condition, including environment. Constructive socioeconomic changes are getting priority in recent years among academia and business sector in Bangladesh. Bangladesh poultry sub-sector has long supply chains having associated with various stakeholders. In this paper, a case poultry farm was taken to examine a production process that links with socioeconomic benefits. Design science method under the quantitative paradigm was chosen to develop a model for the case industry. A Simulation model was developed using simul8 software to construct the real poultry operation. The objectives of this paper are to construct a sustainable model for a case poultry industry along with socioeconomic issues. Later, simulated model output will examine it through various performance indicators (KPIs) to find out the impacts on socioeconomic benefits. Numbers of KPIs have been briefly discussed in light of the research problem to illustrate positive effects of sustainable production.