THE ECONOMIC COMPARISON OF CAGE AND DEEP-LITTER SYSTEMS IN HUNGARY

Abstract

It is all the more difficult for the actors to hold their ground on the global market of caged eggproduction, that is why I believe it is important that the producers be able to judge their own competitivity,and bring their economic decisions based on this. However, the issue is raised whether the movetowards alternative technologies indeed creates the opportunity of competitive management, so the aim ofmy research is the analysis of the economic relations of laying hen farms producing in different keepingtechnologies. There was no example in previous studies of a detailed economic comparison of the cageand deep-litter system from a national database in Hungary, so the cost-benefit analysis of these systemsfrom Union accession to 2014 will lead to new scientific results.

Keywords

• furnished cage
• deep-litter system
• feed
• costs
• sales price
• income