Costos de producción en la criá de pollos de engorde

This research centered its analysis on the production costs of broiler chicken in the following companies located in Municipios Mara, La Cañada de Urdaneta and Jesus Enrique Lossada, Zulia State, Venezuela: Pinpollo, Vilva, Avicola de Occidente, Protinal, Proave, Souto and Criazuca. A study was made of the Venezuelan governmental political agricultural policy, and the productive policy and cost structures of each company were analyzed. The research was biographical-empirical, descriptive and non-experimental. The conclusions were that production costs represented 71% of the total cost, the purchase of the baby chicks at the beginning of the productive cycle, was 13% of the cost and constituted the basis of the vertical integration in the poultry industry. In the industry, the larger companies control the smaller ones, in this case the chicken farms must accept the conditions imposed as to hygiene, feeding, sanitation etc imposed by the companies that control the system.