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The financial impacts of the avian influenza outbreaks on Turkish table egg producers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2009

S. SARIOZKAN ,
C. YALCIN ,
Y. CEVGER ,
Y. ARAL  and
C. SIPAHI
S. SARIOZKAN*
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Health Economics and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
C. YALCIN
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Health Economics and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
Y. CEVGER
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Health Economics and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
Y. ARAL
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Health Economics and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
C. SIPAHI
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Health Economics and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey
*
Corresponding author: ssariozkan@erciyes.edu.tr
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Abstract

A face to face survey was carried out in randomly selected 124 layer producers in 7 most important egg producing cities in Turkey between September 2006 and May 2007 in order to investigate the financial impacts of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in Turkish commercial layer-egg producers. The financial analyses were divided into 3 periods, namely ‘before the outbreak (October 2004-January 2005)’, ‘during the outbreak (October 2005 - January 2006)’ and ‘after the outbreak (February-May 2006)’.

Comparing the egg prices ‘before the disease’ with the situation during the outbreaks, the egg prices dropped from 0.091 YTL/egg to 0.038 YTL/egg. On average, the rate of capacity utilization, enterprise incomes and profits declined by 40%, 75% and 200% respectively. 14.5% of the producers had to stop production for about 5 months. 64.5% invested on average 6,648 YTL/enterprise to improve bio-security. The debts of the enterprises increased 3-4 folds due to the disease outbreaks, with 87% of the producers having to outlay an extra 153,426 YTL on average from their personal funds.

In the ‘after the outbreak’ period, the prices and sales of table eggs recovered and even exceeded those of the ‘before the outbreak’ period, and the producers who managed to continue production appeared to be better off.

Keywords

avian influenzafinancial impactsegg productionlayersTurkey
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Review Article
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 91 - 96
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Copyright © World's Poultry Science Association 2009

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