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Economic Study for Slaughtered Red Meat Case Study on Faculty of Agriculture Slaughterhouse, Alexandria University

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Animal production sector is the main source of animal protein represented in red meat production, which amounted to about 941 thousand tons in 2014, Self-sufficiency ratio was about 72% of the same year. The stage of animal slaughter did not receive sufficient attention so far, both from research or government organization in spite of its importance. The numbers of slaughterhouses in Egypt are 474, and only four slaughterhouses exist in Alexandria. In 2013, the numbers of slaughtered cattle in governmental slaughterhouse in Alexandria were 70.39 thousand head (4.45%) comparing with 1.58 million heads were slaughtered in whole Egypt. The aims of current study were to show the most important operations carried out within government slaughterhouses and knowing their important economic and technical aspects using the published data in central agency for public mobilization and statistics (CAPMS) and preliminary data from research sample at faculty of agriculture slaughterhouse in period of 2006 to 2015. In order to, estimate the periodic fluctuations and economic performance of slaughtered animals. The researcher has adopted to achieve those goals on the descriptive method of economic analysis, statistical analysis. The results of current study were: The minimum average of monthly seasonally fluctuations of slaughtered animals were 80.7 % and the maximum average was 114.91%. 3) the higher slaughtered animals were concentrated in 7 months January, July, August, September, October, November and December, where the percent rate of slaughtered animals for those months were 103.43%,114.91%, 114.03%, 108.56%, 106.18%, 101.14% and 104.86% respectively. And through the performance evaluation of the slaughterhouse it shows that the benefit cost ratio amounted to about 9.18, which means that the slaughterhouse in the best investment than the banks investment. Furthermore, the net profit of slaughterhouse was 3.68 million Egyptian pounds in 2015, the return on slaughtered animals was 89.1% and worker productivity was 21.46 thousand Egyptian pounds in the slaughterhouse of the research sample.

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10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2016.154307

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Slaughterhouses, Slaughtered Red Meat, Seasonally fluctuations, Benefit cost ratio, performance evaluation

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H.I. Mahmoud

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Mohamed

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A.A. Zaki

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37

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April-June

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352

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2016-06-01

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2016-03-31

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2016-06-01

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311

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325

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1110-0176

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2536-9784

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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Economic Study for Slaughtered Red Meat Case Study on Faculty of Agriculture Slaughterhouse, Alexandria University

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22 Jan 2023