COMPARATIVE PRODUCTION (GROWTH) PERFORMANCE AND COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF SONALI CHICKEN UNDER INTENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE CARE

Abstract

The study was conducted to investigate the production system, cost benefit analysis feeding, management, disease prevalence and others problems and prospects of sonali chicken and assess the potentiality of sonali chicken rearing in Dairy and Poultry Science farm of HSTU, Dinajpur and in rural areas of Khochana, Chrirbandar, Dinajpur District in Bangladesh. Data were collected randomly from 90 sonali chicks rearing. I using a pretested interview schedule during April to June 2017 from different areas of Dairy and Poultry Science farm of HSTU, Dinajpur and in my home Khochana, Chrirbandar, Dinajpur District. Cost benefit analysis of different dietary treatment on sonali chicken production. Feed cost for production T0 (70.27±3.82), T1 (87.05±2.09) and T2 (28.0±0.00). Total cost for production T0 (106.77±3.82), T1 (128.05±2.09) and T2 (58.0±0.00). Net profit Tk. T2 (4.60±0.81), T1 (2.37±0.76) and T0 (2.19±1.32) per chick. Most of the farmers (81.25%) stated that the sonali chicken farming is increasing day by day. On the comparison of sonali rearing with intensive and extensive care showed that the costing is less in case of extensive group of sonali than intensive group of sonali. As a result said that extensive group is more beneficial than intensive group. It was concluded that proper knowledge of feeding, vaccination, housing, prevention and control of diseases are given to the rural people could increase the sonali chicken farming with increased household income and employment to youth, rural women and the smallholder marginal farmers