An analysis of trends in U.S. and West Virginia Broiler Industry

ISBN-13: 9783659712388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 76 str.

Solomon Udah

Opis

The book is written in such a way as to help academics from various tertiary institutions to acquire skill that will assist them to write project reports. The book provides useful tools in ascertaining the profitability of an enterprise through the mechanics of cost and return analysis. The reader can also acquire the skill in using econometric analysis to identify factors affecting certain dependent variables. Financing problem has been named as number one obstacle militating against the broiler industry in West Virginia. The reader will be able to note the reason for the financial problem; and also how the concept of growers-integrators concept was used to ameliorate the problem in the broiler industry. The reader will appreciate how and why broiler industry in U.S. has tended to be inelastic over a period of time. The reader will be glad to note that useful data for future analysis could be obtain from the appendix. This saves the reader the effort, frustration and time of searching for data that may not be there. Final, the book presents an interesting historical development of broiler industry in United States. An account that will be very useful to the reader.

O autorze

Dr. Solomon C. Udah was born in Nigeria. In 1981 he proceeded to U.S.A. to continue his education. In December 1986, he had BSc.(Marketing) at Lincoln University Missouri, U.S.A. In 1990 and 2014, he had MSc. (agric.econs) at West Virginia University U.S.A. and Ph.D (agric marketing) at MOUAU, Nigeria respectively. He is married with five children.