Abstract
The objective of this research is to identify the reasons related to deterioration of the poultry industry for broilers in the middle and southern regions of Iraq. In order to achieve the research goals a questionnaire form consists of two parts was designed, the first part included a quadrilateral scale of (54) items distributed in to eight base fields. The second part included a five scales with (20) items. The results showed that, the imported product field achieved the first position among the reasons that related to the deterioration of poultry industry for broilers, which achieved the highest weighted average by 2.8 degree and a weight percentage of 93.3%. While the direction field of the broilers breeders was ranked the last position among the reasons that related to deterioration in poultry industry for broilers, which achieved the lowest weighted average which is 2.6 degree with weight of 86.6%. The results also, showed that the item start working with the integrated production companies in the poultry industry to produce poultry meat was ranked in the first position among the proposed solutions from the broilers breeders' points of view to face the deterioration of the poultry industry for broilers, which ranked the highest weighted average of 4.9 degrees and a percentage weight of 98%. Finally, the item Control the importer's hatching eggs was ranked the last position among the proposed solutions from the broilers breeders' points of view to face the deterioration in the poultry industry for broilers, which achieved the lowest weighted average by (4.5) degrees and a percentage weight of 90%.
Highlights
The livestock sector represents a national wealth, and its importance was highlighted in the national economy in general and the agricultural economy in particular to suit its quantitative and qualitative characteristics and development (7)
Livestock considers as a major part of the agricultural sector, which is not less important than the vegetation side, the poultry represents an important part of livestock, while broilers are at the forefront of poultry for its nutrition, industry, and commercial importance
Because of the increasing demand for broilers and other products, production systems in this field have evolved to make broilers production an industry, which becomes dependent on multiple technologies that complement each other and has developed rapidly into many technologies starting from the establishment of broilers mothers farms,hatchery, broilers breeding fields and ending with slaughter house and manufacturing factories (12)
Summary
The livestock sector represents a national wealth, and its importance was highlighted in the national economy in general and the agricultural economy in particular to suit its quantitative and qualitative characteristics and development (7). Poultry industry projects for broilers are characterized by year-round production, with the cycle of broiler production is short, ranging from 6 to 7 weeks, this reflects the speed of capital turnover compared to the capital cycle of other types of animal production projects that required (approximately 3-12) months (5) This industry considers as one of the most reliable pillars in devising solutions to the problem of food shortage in the world, because broilers have the fast growth, food conversion efficiency, and the possibility of large numbers breeding in relatively small areas with short duration. After the year 2003 the suspension of the national program that supports poultry broilers projects showed a clear setback for this important industry because of the state support suspension for breeders, which resulted in the loss of mothers breeds, which is the basis for the poultry industry broilers and the (slaughter house) is completely suspended. The objective of the research was to identify the reasons related to the deterioration of poultry industry in the middle and southern region of Iraq, as well as to identify the solutions proposed from the viewpoint of meat broilers to confront the deterioration of poultry industry in the middle and southern region of Iraq, noting that the size of the gap widened and the effect of this big deficit in local production to cover the need of meat consumers
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