Abstract
The paper’s purpose is to analyze thirteen variables behind the inappropriate lead time of chicken transportation and determine the factors affecting this distribution. Data, using the snowball sampling method, included 264 questionnaires collected from chicken truck drivers. First, we use the principal component analysis (PCA) to identify the factors contributing to the longest delivery time. We find through PCA that all the variables analyzed take part significantly in the transport time. The most important factors were Connectivity, Resources, Verification & Frisking, Road, and Planning. Improving these factors will optimize the lead time of transport, consequently; improving profitability and animal welfare and quality. The findings are useful to production companies of any fresh products looking to improve their delivery time and increase more benefits.
Highlights
According to the Moroccan agricultural ministry, the poultry sector is one of the most dynamic activities in the country, with an average growth rate during the last four decades of around 7.7% of poultry production, and 3.5% of egg production
Depending on the inter-professional federation of the poultry sector of Morocco (FISA), the marketing and transportation of chicken in Morocco have a lack of strict regulations that follow a primitive system
The findings from this study show that several factors are affecting the delivery time of chicken transportation
Summary
According to the Moroccan agricultural ministry, the poultry sector is one of the most dynamic activities in the country, with an average growth rate during the last four decades of around 7.7% of poultry production, and 3.5% of egg production. Depending on the inter-professional federation of the poultry sector of Morocco (FISA), the marketing and transportation of chicken in Morocco have a lack of strict regulations that follow a primitive system. More than 85% of the chickens are sold alive by small retailers who buy either from the wholesale market or directly from farms depending on the region. The Moroccan consumer, prefers to buy the animal still alive and generally gives it to an adjacent slaughterhouse for the slaughtering service - plucking. The process of chicken transport from loading, transferring, to discharging to the final customer suffers from several constraints, e.g. inappropriate catching, over packaging, old truck, and poor transport conditions
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