Competitiveness of table eggs from non-cage housing system
2010
Rodic, V., Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Peric, L., Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Pavlovski, Z., Institute for Animal Husbandry, Belgrade - Zemun (Serbia) | Milosevic, N., Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad (Serbia)
Experience of developed countries show that production costs in non-cage housing systems for layer hens are from 8 to 59%, and in organic production over 200% higher compared to production costs in the conventional cage system. Consequently , eggs deriving from non-cage systems can be competitive only provided that the consumers are willing to pay adequately higher price for eggs produced in said way. In this paper, 720 consumers were interviewed with aim to determine to what extent they are prepared to pay higher price for eggs deriving from non-cage systems. Obtained results show that over 3/4 of consumers were willing to pay higher price for such eggs. This, hovewer, was limited in majority of consumers (53%) to increase of price by up to 20%.
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