Evaluation of Energy Consumption and Economic Analysis for Traditional and Modern farms of Broiler Production

The main aim of this study was the survey of energy use and economic analysis of broiler production in Mazandaran province of Iran based on two levels of traditional and modern farms. So, the initial data were collected from each system by face-to-face questionnaire separately. Accordingly, the 70 broiler producers were considered for each system. The results revealed the total energy use and broiler yield of traditional farms were about 178343 MJ (1000 birds)-1 and 2746 kg (1000 birds)-1, respectively; while these items were about 188798 MJ (1000 birds)-1 and 3071 kg (1000 birds) -1 for modern farms respectively. Diesel fuel and feed had the highest share of total energy consumption for both of systems. The energy use efficiency was computed as 0.16 and 0.17 for traditional and modern farms, respectively. Also, the other indices were same in both of systems, approximately. Based on energy forms results, the rate of direct and non-renewable energy was more than indirect and renewable energy respectively.