Production Costs and Economic Competitiveness of the Pig Field in the Livestock and Meat Market, Cameroon

The article analyzes the peculiarities of the functioning of the beef market and its impact on the development of the country’s economy. It is emphasized that the importance of national food security and the country’s export potential is an indisputable fact. It is emphasized that an important role in this mission of the state is played by livestock, which provides the population with valuable food. Therefore, the state of development of this branch of agriculture is relevant at present and is one of the priorities of agricultural policy. The importance and role of cattle meat in food security are substantiated. Based on the calculation of five concentration indicators (concentration ratio, Herfindahl-Hirschman index, Hall-Tidman index, market share variance, coefficient of variation, entropy coefficient, relative entropy coefficient), the peculiarities of competition in the domestic meat market are determined. Calculations show that this market is moderately concentrated with a limited oligopoly, has weak market power of economic entities, and a high level of competition in the foreign market of cattle. It is established that ensuring the competitiveness of domestic beef is possible due to the revival of the meat industry based on the development of specialized enterprises, which will reduce production costs, provide affordable prices for beef in rising food prices and product quality standards to enter foreign markets. It is emphasized that the effective development of the meat market will contribute to the sustainable development of the agricultural sector in Ukraine and increase the competitiveness of domestic products. There is still a wide field for research on the mechanisms of state support for the development of livestock in order to restore the potential of the industry and provide the country with stable international positions.

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Current trends in meat price formation

Ekonomìka ta upravlìnnâ APK ◽

10.33245/2310-9262-2020-159-2-55-63 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 55-63

Author(s):

N. Kopytets ◽

S. Pashko ◽

V. Voloshyn

Keyword(s):

Production Costs ◽

Poultry Meat ◽

Purchasing Power ◽

Production Chain ◽

Meat Price ◽

Short Period ◽

Livestock Products ◽

Price Demand ◽

Meat Market ◽

Price Situation

The article examines the main trends in meat price formation.It is determined that the methodology and tradition of price functioning have evolved historically in terms of understanding the nature and characteristics of the price. The level of product price contains the conflicting interests of different parts (producer and consumer). It is generalized that the formation of livestock products prices is influenced by supply and demand.It is confirmed that price is a factor that creates demand in case of the low consumers’ purchasing power. The process of prices forming on livestock products is based on the general principles of pricing. However, there are certain features of pricing stipulated from the specifics of production and processing of livestock products.Among the main factors influencing the prices formation on livestock products should be noted the following: natural and climatic conditions, price disparity in agriculture, the presence of a large number of households which deal with raising cattle and poultry,high level of production costs, the presence of multiple links in the production chain, a short period of product storage, a large proportion of low-income population.It is proved that the livestock product prices in market conditions must respond quickly to any changes in the production chain. The analysis of the price situation on the meat market was carried out.It was found that in Ukraine during the study period there is a tendency of increasing purchasing, wholesale and consumer prices.In the first half-year of 2020, there were significant changes in the price situation.The results confirm the trends at the world meat market.It is proved that the situation at the domestic meat market depends on the state of the global market. It is noted that in the future the price situation at the meat market will depend on the purchasing power of the population, the proposal of main meat types, the exchange rate of the national currency, production and export volumes. Keywords: price, demand, supply, meat market, purchase prices, wholesale prices, consumer prices, beef, pork, poultry meat.

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Universal tooling cuts jig and fixture production costs

Production Engineer ◽

10.1049/tpe.1982.0220 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 61 (12) ◽

pp. 27

Keyword(s):

Production Costs

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Establishment and Production Costs for Peach Orchards in Florida: Enterprise Budget and Profitability Analysis

EDIS ◽

10.32473/edis-fe1016-2017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Ariel Singerman ◽

Marina Burani Arouca ◽

Mercy A. Olmstead

Keyword(s):

Discount Rate ◽

Production Costs ◽

Fixed Costs ◽

Average Price ◽

Land Preparation ◽

Profitability Analysis ◽

Enterprise Budget ◽

Marketable Fruit ◽

Peach Orchard

The article summarizes the establishment and production costs, as well as the potential profitability of a peach orchard in Florida. Our findings show the initial investment required for a peach operation in Florida to be $6,457 per acre; the expense in land preparation and planting alone in year 1 is $2,541 per acre. Variable and fixed costs in years 2 through 15 average $5,680 per acre. As an example of profitability, when using a 10% discount rate, an operation yielding 6,525 (7,254) pounds of marketable fruit per acre during its most productive years obtains a positive NPV when the average price is $2.38 ($2.13) per pound.

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How does market size affect Kosovo economic competitiveness?

10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.294 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Armend Muja ◽

Zef Dedaj ◽

Kaltrina Bunjaku

Keyword(s):

Market Size ◽

Economic Competitiveness

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Peeping at nature with the Reverend Charles A. Hall FRMS (1872–1965)

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2015.0275 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 10-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

P. G. Moore

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Natural History ◽

Production Costs ◽

Visual Appeal ◽

Young Readers ◽

Simple Language ◽

Quality Production

Attention is drawn to the contents, pedagogic style and visual appeal of the 17-volume “Peeps at nature” series published by A. & C. Black between 1911 and 1935. Edited by the Reverend Charles Albert Hall (a Swedenborgian minister), who also contributed most of the titles, this series was a quality production but one that was cheap enough to be readily accessible to young readers. Its volumes were written in simple language and included colour pictures. With time, the flamboyant artistry of the covers that so characterized the earlier volumes was replaced by more muted designs, possibly to reduce production costs. Later contributors abandoned anthropomorphism and the moralizing tone of many nineteenth-century popularizers of natural history, although styles of writing varied between the early and later contributors to the series, becoming less technical with time.

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CONVEYOR MODEL AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REAL NUMBERS ADDER ON FPGA

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS ◽

10.15276/eltecs.33.109.2020.3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (109) ◽

pp. 21-31

Author(s):

І. Ya. Zeleneva ◽

Т. V. Golub ◽

T. S. Diachuk ◽

А. Ye. Didenko

Keyword(s):

Performance Improvement ◽

Experimental Studies ◽

Production Costs ◽

Floating Point ◽

Computing Device ◽

Quartus Ii ◽

Functional Blocks ◽

Mental Testing ◽

Processor Cores ◽

Floating Point Numbers

The purpose of these studies is to develop an effective structure and internal functional blocks of a digital computing device – an adder, that performs addition and subtraction operations on floating- point numbers presented in IEEE Std 754TM-2008 format. To improve the characteristics of the adder, the circuit uses conveying, that is, division into levels, each of which performs a specific action on numbers. This allows you to perform addition / subtraction operations on several numbers at the same time, which increas- es the performance of calculations, and also makes the adder suitable for use in modern synchronous cir- cuits. Each block of the conveyor structure of the adder on FPGA is synthesized as a separate project of a digital functional unit, and thus, the overall task is divided into separate subtasks, which facilitates experi- mental testing and phased debugging of the entire device. Experimental studies were performed using EDA Quartus II. The developed circuit was modeled on FPGAs of the Stratix III and Cyclone III family. An ana- logue of the developed circuit was a functionally similar device from Altera. A comparative analysis is made and reasoned conclusions are drawn that the performance improvement is achieved due to the conveyor structure of the adder. Implementation of arithmetic over the floating-point numbers on programmable logic integrated cir- cuits, in particular on FPGA, has such advantages as flexibility of use and low production costs, and also provides the opportunity to solve problems for which there are no ready-made solutions in the form of stand- ard devices presented on the market. The developed adder has a wide scope, since most modern computing devices need to process floating-point numbers. The proposed conveyor model of the adder is quite simple to implement on the FPGA and can be an alternative to using built-in multipliers and processor cores in cases where the complex functionality of these devices is redundant for a specific task.

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ZONGULDAK İLİNDE İHRACAT YAPAN FİRMALARIN İHRACATTA KARŞILAŞTIKLARI SORUNLAR

Business And Management Studies An International Journal ◽

10.15295/bmij.v1i3.70 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 249

Author(s):

Ramazan Aksoy ◽

Canan Yıldıran

Keyword(s):

Production Costs ◽

International Competition ◽

Face To Face ◽

Chamber Of Commerce ◽

Statistical Program

In this study, it is subjected to define what kind of export problems come up for the company exporting in Zonguldak. It is interviewed with 35 exporter companies recorded in Turkey Exporters Assembly and Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Prepared questionnaire form’s data are analyzed with SPSS 15 statistical program as the results of the activity which is performed through face to face meetings with company’s executives. As the result of the analysis, it is defined that exporter companies face big problems in production costs as for carrying, storing and distribution and international competition conditions. As the result of the activities, we see that there is a relevance regarding whether there is an exporter department in the companies and regarding being a proactive and reactive exporter.

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