scholarly journals Rabbit meat sector value chain

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Baviera-Puig ◽  
J. Buitrago-Vera ◽  
C. Escriba-Perez ◽  
L. Montero-Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Distribution Channel ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Rabbit Meat

<p>The aim of this research was to study the cuniculture industry in Spain, according to the Food Value Chain model, and analyse what its main operators are. Four components were identified in the rabbit meat production chain: input suppliers, producers, abattoirs and cutting plants and distribution. Distribution can follow 2 paths, the traditional channel and the modern or large-scale distribution channel. Rabbit feed, which represents the main input for producers, is a minority product, especially when compared to feeds formulated for other livestock species, as its manufacture calls for specialist companies. Rabbit production is linked to the rural environment and constitutes a significant economic option, not only for farms but also for the industry around it, such as feed producers and distributors, technicians, slaughterhouses or leather processors, among others. Rabbit farms are generally independent and not usually integrated, as found in other types of livestock. Slaughterhouses currently represent one of the main axes of the rabbit meat production chain and are either focused on traditional or large-scale distribution. The main strategic changes are apparent in slaughterhouses focused on large-scale distribution by seeking cooperative ways of working, using slaughterhouse groupings and vertical integration processes. This way, they manage to adjust margins by working with economies of scale and, ultimately, lower prices. Slaughterhouses whose strategies are based on traditional distribution may achieve higher margins than those focusing their efforts on large-scale distribution, but their growth is limited. In traditional retail premises, the majority of sales consist of whole carcasses in bulk, which are prepared and quartered as per consumer tastes. Large-scale retail distribution outlets sell both cut produce from the meat counters located in their own premises and pre-packaged products, more suited to self-service formulae. Brand presence is minimal, as is that of processed or semiprocessed products. This current situation requires support from the entire sector in order to provide rabbit<br />meat with new features better adapted to consumers’ needs, above and beyond price and with greater added value.</p>

scholarly journals Cell-Based Meat and Firms’ Environmental Strategies: New Rationales as per Available Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9418
Author(s):  
Germano Glufke Reis ◽  
Marina Sucha Heidemann ◽  
Katherine Helena Oliveira de Matos ◽  
Carla Forte Maiolino Molento
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Consumer Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Alternative Protein ◽  
Environmental Strategies

Higher demand for meat production and limited inputs, as well as environmental and animal ethics issues, are bringing alternative protein sources to the market, such as cell-based meat (CBM), i.e., meat produced through cell culturing, without involving animal raising and killing. Although the potential social and environmental benefits of the technology have been recently addressed in the blossoming CBM literature, little has been discussed about the possible implications for the environmental strategies of firms that are entering the new cell-based production chain. Thus, drawing on the theoretical framework of competitive environmental strategies and a systematic review of the literature, we discuss prospects for cell-based meat regarding the possible adoption of environmental strategies by firms that are entering the CBM chain. The technology may be considered a potential means for mitigating most of the environmental impacts of large-scale meat production, e.g., extensive land use and greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how such benefits and consumer attitudes towards cultivated meat could encourage the adoption of environmental strategies by firms, and the roles that value chain firms are likely to play in those strategies in the future.

scholarly journals Forecasting beef production and quality using large-scale integrated data from Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Cardoso Ferreira Aiken ◽  
Arthur Francisco Araújo Fernandes ◽  
Tiago Luciano Passafaro ◽  
Juliano Sabella Acedo ◽  
Fábio Guerra Dias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Level ◽  
Parameter Tuning ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Beef Production ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Testing Set

Abstract With agriculture rapidly becoming a data-driven field, it is imperative to extract useful information from large data collections to optimize the production systems. We compared the efficacy of regression (linear regression or generalized linear regression [GLR] for continuous or categorical outcomes, respectively), random forests (RF) and multilayer neural networks (NN) to predict beef carcass weight (CW), age when finished (AS), fat deposition (FD), and carcass quality (CQ). The data analyzed contained information on over 4 million beef cattle from 5,204 farms, corresponding to 4.3% of Brazil’s national production between 2014 and 2016. Explanatory variables were integrated from different data sources and encompassed animal traits, participation in a technical advising program, nutritional products sold to farms, economic variables related to beef production, month when finished, soil fertility, and climate in the location in which animals were raised. The training set was composed of information collected in 2014 and 2015, while the testing set had information recorded in 2016. After parameter tuning for each algorithm, models were used to predict the testing set. The best model to predict CW and AS was RF (CW: predicted root mean square error = 0.65, R2 = 0.61, and mean absolute error = 0.49; AS: accuracy = 28.7%, Cohen’s kappa coefficient [Kappa] = 0.08). While the best approach for FD and CQ was GLR (accuracy = 45.7%, Kappa = 0.05, and accuracy = 58.7%, Kappa = 0.09, respectively). Across all models, there was a tendency for better performance with RF and regression and worse with NN. Animal category, nutritional plan, cattle sales price, participation in a technical advising program, and climate and soil in which animals were raised were deemed important for prediction of meat production and quality with regression and RF. The development of strategies for prediction of livestock production using real-world large-scale data will be core to projecting future trends and optimizing the allocation of resources at all levels of the production chain, rendering animal production more sustainable. Despite beef cattle production being a complex system, this analysis shows that by integrating different sources of data it is possible to forecast meat production and quality at the national level with moderate-high levels of accuracy.

scholarly journals Sustainability Analysis of Fish Feed Derived from Aquatic Plant and Insect

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7371
Author(s):  
Shashank Goyal ◽  
Denise Ott ◽  
Jens Liebscher ◽  
Dennis Höfling ◽  
Ariane Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Lemna Minor ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Fish Feed ◽  
Hermetia Illucens ◽  
Urban Sites ◽  
Research Show

Fish and meat production and processing will grow drastically in the coming decades. In aquacultural systems, insects are gaining interest as feed to provide a sustainable alternative to the fishmeal paradox, whose production leads to high consumption of resources and negative environmental impacts. Within the scope of this study, the production of fish feed from Hermetia illucens larvae and Lemna minor in an inline recirculating aquaponics model for urban sites was developed and optimized, which efficiently combines waste and environmental service concepts in one production system. At the same time, the value chain produces high-quality, market-accessible raw materials for the fish feed industry. All investigations were accompanied by a comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to measure and compare ecological effects to finally result in sustainable alternatives. The results achieved in this research show that fish feed based on Hermetia illucens and Lemna minor can have the potential to be ecologically competitive or more sustainable than standard feed. It should be noted that the comparison here represents the results of the project on a pilot scale. Various optimization potentials were shown, which are essential for the large-scale implementation of the breeding of both species as well as their processing up to the fish feed pellets.

scholarly journals Connecting Smallholding Farmers: Analysis of Agricultural Market Information Systems (The Case of Wondogenet Wereda, SNNPR, Ethiopia)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1819-1830
Author(s):  
Mitiku Kebede Kayamo ◽  
Shiferaw Mitiku Tebeka
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Demand Forecasting ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Agricultural Product ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Long Distance

The study aimed to identify the major challenges that affect the market information system, assess the possible mechanism that would increase their speculative and bargaining capacity power and to explore feasible information system solutions. Data were collected with structured questionnaire from104 farmers of different market using clustered sampling techniques. Descriptive research design and mixed (qualitative and quantitative) research approach vis-à-vis value chain approach is applied and developed an intermediary driven value chain model that links farmers to the market as a way to improve the unidirectional, selectively beneficiary traditional system. Using nine criteria on the multitude of alternative information delivery mechanisms for small holding farmers, Interactive Voice Response based system is found to be of highly effective. Restructuring the market information by bringing the most important wholesalers in to the system, enhancing the functionalities of the market by creating localized price data and creating demand forecasting platform by distinguishing crops that continuously face marketing problems are suggested as short-term action while, increasing economies of scale in production and distribution by consolidating farmers’ cooperatives, encouraging the development of third-party logistics, investing on the physical agro-logistics infrastructure to support long-distance, high-volume agricultural product transportation modes as well as increasing the refrigerated storage capacity at wholesale markets to nurture cold chain technologies are very crucial tasks in the long run.

scholarly journals The Bat Meat Chain and Perceptions of the risk of contracting Ebola in the Mount Cameroon Region

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efuet Simon Akem ◽  
Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Mount Cameroon ◽  
Gendered Patterns

Abstract Background Local people’s interaction with bats render them vulnerable to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). This paper examines perceptions of risk involved in the hunting, handling, processing and consumption of bat meat in the Mount Cameroon region of Southwest Cameroon. It focuses on the myriad cultural beliefs, gendered patterns of activity and institutional arrangements in which the bat meat production chain is embedded. Methods We conducted 30 ethnographic interviews with a sample of purposively selected men and women involved in the bat meat trade. The interviews were tape recorded, transcribed verbatim and inductive analysis was performed on the data. Findings The findings suggests that more urban men than villagers and hunters consume bat meat. Different practices and behaviours expose the mostly uneducated, young, single men and women to the risk of Ebola infection depending on their differential level of intervention in the human-bat interaction and value chain linking hunters, sellers and customers. The killing of bats with the mouth during hunting expose hunters (young men) while the preparation of bat carcasses for consumption also put women, (mostly young and unmarried) at risk. Conclusions This study demonstrates that the complexity and nuances of gender, poverty and Ebola outcomes predispose some marginal groups to the risk of infection with zoonotic diseases. There is the need to improve public health intervention and health education among the rural masses in the Mount Cameroon region.

scholarly journals Abstracts of the 40th Symposium on Cuniculture, ASESCU Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 28th-29th May, 2015

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Abstracts, Conferences, Congresses, Symposiums...
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
The North ◽  
Production Value ◽  
Oral Communications ◽  
Rabbit Meat ◽  
Support Research

<p>The 40th Congress of the Spanish Association of Cuniculture (ASESCU) was held in Santiago de Compostela from 28th to 29th May 2015. This is the 40th edition of the conference, held annually without interruption since 1976. Main papers focused on analysing the current rabbit sector situation in the north-western Iberian Peninsula, genetic improvement of meat rabbit and foundation of new lines. The future of meat rabbit production and the rabbit meat production value chain was discussed, with the results of the partnership between the Spanish Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA) and the rabbit marketing board (INTERCUN) to support research projects. A round table was also held on coccidiosis in rabbit farms. In addition, a total of 32 communications were presented both in working sessions with oral communications and posters (pathology, nutrition, reproduction, ethology, production and products). The meeting was attended by more than 200 participants, including researchers from Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Ecuador and Egypt, among other countries. Abstracts of the contributions presented are reported below.</p>

scholarly journals The Role and Impact of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things on the Business Strategy of the Value Chain—The Case of Hungary

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judit Nagy ◽  
Judit Oláh ◽  
Edina Erdei ◽  
Domicián Máté ◽  
József Popp
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Efficient Production ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Impact

In the era of industrial digitalization, companies are increasingly investing in tools and solutions that allow their processes, machines, employees, and even the products themselves, to be integrated into a single integrated network for data collection, data analysis, the evaluation of company development, and performance improvement. To study the impact of Industry 4.0 on the company we used Porter’s (1985) value chain model, which is particularly useful when paying particular attention to corporate areas which have a primary role in customer value creation. Since the primary impact of Industry 4.0 is perceived in value-creating processes, and has so far had the greatest transformative effect in this area, the model can be considered to be appropriate. The objective of our research is to discover how companies operating in Hungary interpret the phenomenon of Industry 4.0, what Internet of Things (IoT) tools they use to support their processes, and what critical issues they face during adaptation. We applied a dual methodology in our investigation: We sent an online questionnaire to manufacturing and logistical service companies to investigate the IoT tools they use, and the problems they face, and received 43 answers we could evaluate. We also conducted four expert interviews with manufacturing firms to get deeper insights into the application, critical issues and development phases of IoT tools. During our research, we found that the spread of real-time data across companies—given the availability of appropriate analytical tools and methods—can have a significant impact on the entire company. In the case of CPS (Cyber Physical System), CPPS and Big Data Technologies, companies using them have been evaluated as having a higher level of logistic service, more efficient processes with their partners, improved cooperation between certain logistic functions, and higher market and financial performance and competitiveness. Applying more efficient production processes, and achieving better productivity and economies of scale, might also result in increased economic sustainability. Furthermore, we have found that companies have started on the path to digital evolution, and investments of this type have already begun.

scholarly journals Predictions on Availability and Possibilities of the use of Wood for Energy Purposes in Europe and in Poland

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Kaliszewski ◽  
Piotr Gołos
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Wood Harvesting ◽  
Energy Wood ◽  
Potential Impact

Abstract The paper presents the results of studies concerning the availability and possibilities of the use of wood for energy purposes in Europe and in Poland. It describes in detail the current use of wood for energy production purposes, as well as predictions on volume, composition, and sources of energy wood. It also presents the results concerning potential impact of energy wood harvesting on wood industries. The paper concludes that the question of utilization of forest biomass for large-scale energy generation is very complex and has far-reaching consequences for environment, society and economy. So as to be effective, wood resources management should give a priority to wood-based production of the greatest added value, and energy generation should be a closing-down stage in the wood value chain

Diversified Integrated Farm Model

2019 ◽  
pp. 96-130
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Long Term Stability ◽  
Farm Model ◽  
Imported Food

There is a worldwide issue in emerging economies with food security and increasing dependence on imported food from more developed countries. St. Kitts-Nevis and numerous Caribbean countries face similar circumstances. St. Kitts-Nevis is positioned to change this trend in its national economy and contribute to export with its Caribbean partners and perhaps further afield. Climate change, particularly pervasive drought conditions, present serious challenges but also opportunities to mitigate and adapt such adversities and accrue benefits to local farmers and related entrepreneurs if a model integrated farm is established with key contributing factors in its design such as productivity, flexibility, efficiency, and sustainability. An integrated farming system would compensate for low economies of scale in a value chain model, and linkages would sustain long-term stability and growth at the enterprise, sectoral, and inter-sectoral levels.

scholarly journals Value chain and competitiveness of OCOP standardized clown knife fish products in Hau Giang province

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Thuy Trang Nguyen ◽  
Hong Tu Vo
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Production Cost ◽  
Distribution Channel ◽  
Distribution Channels ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Fish Products ◽  
Feed Cost ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Processed Products

The study was conducted to analyze the competitiveness of OCOP standardized clown knife fish products in Hau Giang province. The data were collected from 73 observations involved in the clown knife fish value chain. The research results show that most farmers culture knife fish intensively and the feed cost shares the highest proportion of the total production cost. Processed products from knife fish are mainly boneless fish and fish balls. The OCOP knife fish value chain operated through four main distribution channels and included actors: fish farmers, traders, processors, and retailers. The farmers normally sell fresh knife fish to middleman, accounting for 80.15%. The processing factories create and share the highest proportion of added value. The distribution channel that farmers are linked directly with processors create higher added value than others. The study also analyzed the Porter’s five forces of the knife industry. The study found that there are many potential risks in the farming process, high competitive pressures from substitute products, and limited negotiation ability of both farmers and processors.

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