تقييم كفاءة اداء السوق لمشروعات الأرانب فى مصر

The objective of this study is to evaluate the market performance efficiency of rabbit projects in Egypt, as a promising sector. To achieve such objective several indicators were estimated. They include: (1) Output/Input price ratio, (2) Return per one L. E. spent on Feeds, (3) The model of Time Series analysis for Retail Prices at different market stages, (4) The response of the marketing margin between retail and whole sale stage to retail price and the response of the marketing margin between wholesale and farm-gate price to the wholesale price, (5) The spread of the consumer price L. E. over the marketing stages, (6) The demand function, where the retail price is an endogenous variable affected by per capita consumption of rabbit meat, the retail price of chicken meat as substitute and per capita income, where all prices and income level were deflated by the CPI and the problem of autocorrelation was treated by using the "Cochran-Orcutt" method. From the results it was concluded that, (1) Rabbit projects are more feasible than chicken projects, (2) There are two seasons for the farm-gate price. The first extends from (Jan.-Jul.) where the price is below the annual average, the second occupies the period (Aug.-Dec.) where the price is above the annual average, (3) Rabbit prices have being increased over the last two decades, without any cycle movements, which reflects the growth of this industry in Egypt, (4) The price relations and the price spread over the marketing stages showed that this sector suffers from monopolistic practices at wholesale stage, (5) The demand function showed that whereas the price elasticity of the substitute (chicken) is high, the income elasticity is significantly low and the per capita consumption of rabbit meat has not significant effect on its own price. This due to the current low level of consumption and the seasonality of the consumption pattern.