The value chain analysis for poultry hatcheries in Wasit province-Iraq for the year 2018

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The research aims to study and analyze the items of costs and revenues accrued in poultry hatcheries and calculating profits and value-added and their percentage, in addition to calculating some economic indicators.

A descriptive and quantitative analysis method was used to analyze the data collected through the questionnaire form.

The results of the study showed that the variable costs for poultry hatcheries constitute (95%) of the total costs, where the cost of purchasing eggs for hatching amounted to (96%) of them.

The study recommended encouraging projects that supplying hatching eggs by establishing and expanding projects for mothers of hatching eggs in order to reduce the costs of purchasing of hatching eggs and not rely on imported eggs.