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Ram Roy
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2185/2015.1112.001
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Ram Roy, Ph.D., senior lecturer in management, Eastern Institute of Technology, 501 Gloucester Street, Napier, 4112, New Zealand.
ABSTRACT
This paper investigates a large integrated poultry farm in terms of its operations, its labour, and multi-factor productivity based on the operations data received from two processing plants over a period of 15 months. The purpose of this paper is to: (a) identify and classify various types of costs that impact the operational success of the farm; (b) collect data, compute labour productivity, multi-factor productivity, rejects, and losses for the two plants; (c) compare the two processing plants of the company from various perspectives, such as rejection in products, process losses, and different types of costs; and (d) recommend ways to improve the productivity and operations of the processing plants to produce good quality products and reduce wastes during the production.
KEYWORDS
labour and multi-factor productivity, poultry farm, waste minimization
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