Evaluation of the sustainability of contrasted pig farming systems: economy

Ilari-Antoine, E.; Bonneau, Michel; Klauke, T.; González, J.; Dourmad, Jean-Yves; Greef, K. de; Houwers, H.W.J.; Fàbrega, E.; Zimmer, Christoph; Hviid, M.; Oever, B. van der; Edwards, Sandra A.

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“…The total cost of pig production can be divided into total feed cost (TFC), total fixed cost (TFIX), total reproduction cost (TREPC) and total drug and vaccine cost (DVCT) [15]. TFC resulted in approximately 67 % to 72 % of the total cost per pig in Spain, depending on the years as feed prices have suffered tremendous fluctuations over the last five years.…”

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Production parameters and pig production cost: temporal evolution 2010–2014

Rocadembosch¹,

Amador

Bernaus³

et al. 2016

Porc Health Manag

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BackgroundThe assessment of the cost of production and the relative weight of the different production parameters is very important in pig farming. The goals of the present work were 1) to describe reliable reference values for production parameters and pig production cost from 2010 to 2014, 2) to describe their temporal evolution and 3) to determine the influence of the pig company size on them. Between 61 and 107 pig production companies from Spain were included in this study from 2010 to 2014. These companies sent data on feed consumption, number of pig produced, expenses and census every month. Sip consultors SL standardized collected data and calculate cost and production parameters to obtain values comparables between the different pig production companies. The collected data each month were merged to obtain a yearly average value taking into account the pig production flow each month. A suitable statistical analysis was carried out to tackle the goals.ResultsThe production performance has been continuously improving in the piglet production and fattening phase from 2010 to 2014. Thus, the number of piglets by sow and year will increase 0.5 pigs by year and the total feed conversion rate will decrease approximately 0.03 kg feed/kg gain by year in the future if the same tendency continues. However, feed price has been steadily increasing from 2010 to 2012 and decreasing afterwards and the total cost per kilogram produced has followed a similar pattern. This result highlights the relevance of the feed price in the final cost in spite of continuous improvement in production performance across years. Finally, pig company size affected most of the production parameters studied. Thus, the best technical parameters were obtained for companies with less than 5000 sows. However, the opposite tendency is observed for feed price where the highest value was observed for the smallest companies.ConclusionsPig production parameters have generally improved in the last five years but this improvement did not directly imply a reduction in pig production cost due to the high feed prices during the period 2010–2013.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40813-016-0027-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Production parameters and pig production cost: temporal evolution 2010–2014

Rocadembosch¹,

Amador

Bernaus³

et al. 2016

Porc Health Manag

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“…On the overall sustainable development, the IDEA‐AHP results show that for farmers in Bac Giang province, Economic performance is the most important factor/dimension, followed by Socio‐territorial and then Agroecology—see Table 5. It is not surprising that ECON accounts for more than 50% of the overall Sustainable Agriculture because the ultimate purpose of those farms, as family businesses, is still profit‐maximizing—this argument can also be found in farmers from India (Kumbhakar, 1994), Bangladesh (Rahman, Haque, Akhterruzzaman, & Khan, 2002), the European (Ilari‐Antoine et al, 2014) and Vietnam (Ngo, Vu, Ho, Dao, & Nguyen, 2019; Nguyen et al, 2019), among others. It is noted that while ECON reflects the sustainable aspect of economic performance but not profit‐maximization at all costs, the fact that those farmers see AGRO as the least important factor/dimension with only 17% contribution toward SUST suggests that biodiversity, natural resources and agroecosystem has not been focused in the examined province.…”

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“…As discussed by Cruz et al (2018, p. 37), “many indicators are purely theoretical,[..] that require a lot of information and expert knowledge to provide environmental estimates that are generally not suitable.” Similarly, it is also pointed out that a number of indicators are not directly observable but need to be calculated from observed ones (Baccar et al, 2019). Second, there is also the problem of complexity, where many researchers try to reduce/aggregate the number of variables or indicators for the examination process using techniques such as PCA or FA (Baccar et al, 2019; Ilari‐Antoine et al, 2014). Another problem with IDEA is that it aims to construct a composite index of agriculture sustainability using equal weights from the components and sub‐component indicators, assuming that all indicators/components play a similar role in the index (Zahm et al, 2008; Zahm et al, 2018).…”

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Assessing the important factors of sustainable agriculture development: An Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles‐Analytic Hierarchy Process study in the northern region of Vietnam

Ngo

Nguyen²,

Ho³

et al. 2020

Sustainable Development

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Combining the systemic indicators of sustainable agriculture provided by the Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles (IDEA) framework and the pairwise comparison method provided by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique, this study examined 644 farmers in the Northern region of Vietnam (using Bac Giang province as a case study) to identify and rank those important factors according to their contributions to the farmer's practices. We found that the Economic dimension is the most important factor that contributes 54% toward the overall Sustainable Agriculture, followed by the Socio-territorial dimension (29%) and then the Agroecology dimension (17%). We further argue that while it is reasonable for farmers to focus on the sustainable economic performance aspect of their farms, there is a need for the local authorities to be involved to maintain a balanced sustainable agriculture development in the region. K E Y W O R D S agriculture, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles (IDEA), Northern region of Vietnam, sustainable development | INTRODUCTIONThe agriculture sector is becoming more important, especially in developing countries, because of its central role in food safety, hunger and

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“…In Q-PorkChains the three cornerstones of the sustainability concept (economic, environmental and societal sustainability) were expanded to eight themes: breeding programmes (this paper), economy (Ilari-Antoine et al, 2014), animal health, animal welfare, market conformity , meat safety; environmental sustainability and human working conditions. Clearly, these themes are related to each other in various ways.…”

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Evaluation of the sustainability of contrasted pig farming systems: breeding programmes

Rydhmer

Gourdine

Greef

et al. 2014

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The sustainability of breeding activities in 15 pig farming systems in five European countries was evaluated. One conventional and two differentiated systems per country were studied. The Conventional systems were the standard systems in their countries. The differentiated systems were of three categories: Adapted Conventional with focus on animal welfare, meat quality or environment (five systems); Traditional with local breeds in small-scale production (three systems) and Organic (two systems). Data were collected with a questionnaire from nine breeding organisations providing animals and semen to the studied farming systems and from, on average, five farmers per farming system. The sustainability assessment of breeding activities was performed in four dimensions. The first dimension described whether the market for the product was well defined, and whether the breeding goal reflected the farming system and the farmers' demands. The second dimension described recording and selection procedures, together with genetic change in traits that were important in the system. The third dimension described genetic variation, both within and between pig breeds. The fourth dimension described the management of the breeding organisation, including communication, transparency, and technical and human resources. The results show substantial differences in the sustainability of breeding activities, both between farming systems within the same category and between different categories of farming systems. The breeding activities are assessed to be more sustainable for conventional systems than for differentiated systems in three of the four dimensions. In most differentiated farming systems, breeding goals are not related to the system, as these systems use the same genetic material as conventional systems. The breeds used in Traditional farming systems are important for genetic biodiversity, but the small scale of these systems renders them vulnerable. It is hoped that, by reflecting on different aspects of sustainability, this study will encourage sustainable developments in pig production.

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Evaluation of the sustainability of contrasted pig farming systems: economy

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Production parameters and pig production cost: temporal evolution 2010–2014

Production parameters and pig production cost: temporal evolution 2010–2014

Assessing the important factors of sustainable agriculture development: An Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles‐Analytic Hierarchy Process study in the northern region of Vietnam

Evaluation of the sustainability of contrasted pig farming systems: breeding programmes

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