Production and consumption behaviour of poultry-meat and egg in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh

This study was undertaken with a view to determining the poultry and egg production and their consumption behaviour with variation in income in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh. For this purpose, 800 households from 4 regions were interviewed. Results showed that the number of local poultry per urban and rural households were 0.56 and 16.26 respectively. The numbers of commercial layer per urban and rural households were 0.38 and 3.31 respectively. Annual egg production per layer were 48.16, 280.40 and 57.64 for local, commercial layer and duck respectively. It is revealed that per capita daily consumption of poultry meat and egg were respectively increased to 7.64g and 6.31g in 2002 compared to 6.04g and 4.82g in 1995. The calculated value of coefficient of income elasticity of demand for poultry meat and egg were +1.20 and +1.28, respectively. The most responsible factors that affected the demard for and supply of poultry meat and egg were identified. Some suggestions were made to improve the production and consumption of poultry and egg in the country