Abstract
Introduction
• Poultry meat and egg production provide affordable animal protein to customers in Bangladesh, but also represent an important employment opportunity
• Poultry value chains are more diverse in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC)
like Bangladesh compared to high-income countries
• Poultry meat is provided to customers in LMIC either as live poultry or as
slaughtered carcasses (‘dressed poultry’)
• Production and trading practices of poultry play an important role in the spread of avian and zoonotic food-borne pathogens
Objectives
• Identify the actors involved in the live poultry and dressed poultry trading chain in
Bangladesh
• Describe how actors are ‘connected’ when trading live or dressed poultry
• Analyse and compare the trading practices and transactions between different
actors involved in the two chains
Methods
• Questionnaire based surveys of actors involved
in live poultry trading chain
• LBM managers (N=48)
• Stall owners/vendors trading poultry (N=412)
• Mobile poultry traders/MM (N=172)
• ‘Feed and chick dealers’ (N=157)
• Key informant interviews of actors involved
in dressed poultry trading chain
• Slaughtering companies (N=9)
• Director of distribution points of the largest
chain supermarket in Dhaka (N=1)
• Supermarkets which trade dressed poultry
in Chattogram (N=5)
• Duration: Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
• Planned analysis: Descriptive statistics and social network analysis
Discussion
• In the live poultry trading chain, significant differences (p<0.05) by market type (large
retail, small retail, large mixed and small mixed market) were found for:
• Number of MM operating at markets
• Number of poultry sold per day
• Contacts between types of chickens and between species of poultry
• Presence of dogs
• Mixing of newly supplied birds with unsold birds
• Live and dressed poultry trading chains are closely connected, with multiple crossover
points in the supply of birds
• Consumer perception that dressed poultry has a lower risk for food-born pathogens
than birds from LBMs needs to be treated with caution
• Unsubstantiated consumer confidence in dressed poultry may inadvertently increase
the risk of infection with food borne pathogens in humans
• Poultry meat and egg production provide affordable animal protein to customers in Bangladesh, but also represent an important employment opportunity
• Poultry value chains are more diverse in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC)
like Bangladesh compared to high-income countries
• Poultry meat is provided to customers in LMIC either as live poultry or as
slaughtered carcasses (‘dressed poultry’)
• Production and trading practices of poultry play an important role in the spread of avian and zoonotic food-borne pathogens
Objectives
• Identify the actors involved in the live poultry and dressed poultry trading chain in
Bangladesh
• Describe how actors are ‘connected’ when trading live or dressed poultry
• Analyse and compare the trading practices and transactions between different
actors involved in the two chains
Methods
• Questionnaire based surveys of actors involved
in live poultry trading chain
• LBM managers (N=48)
• Stall owners/vendors trading poultry (N=412)
• Mobile poultry traders/MM (N=172)
• ‘Feed and chick dealers’ (N=157)
• Key informant interviews of actors involved
in dressed poultry trading chain
• Slaughtering companies (N=9)
• Director of distribution points of the largest
chain supermarket in Dhaka (N=1)
• Supermarkets which trade dressed poultry
in Chattogram (N=5)
• Duration: Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
• Planned analysis: Descriptive statistics and social network analysis
Discussion
• In the live poultry trading chain, significant differences (p<0.05) by market type (large
retail, small retail, large mixed and small mixed market) were found for:
• Number of MM operating at markets
• Number of poultry sold per day
• Contacts between types of chickens and between species of poultry
• Presence of dogs
• Mixing of newly supplied birds with unsold birds
• Live and dressed poultry trading chains are closely connected, with multiple crossover
points in the supply of birds
• Consumer perception that dressed poultry has a lower risk for food-born pathogens
than birds from LBMs needs to be treated with caution
• Unsubstantiated consumer confidence in dressed poultry may inadvertently increase
the risk of infection with food borne pathogens in humans
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 25 Oct 2022 |
| Event | UKRI GCRF One Health Poultry Hub Annual Conference 2022 - Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden Hotel, Dhaka, Bangladesh Duration: 25 Oct 2022 → 27 Oct 2022 https://www.onehealthpoultry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GCRF-UKRI-One-Health-Poultry-Hub-conference-doc-20221022.pdf |
Conference
| Conference | UKRI GCRF One Health Poultry Hub Annual Conference 2022 |
|---|---|
| Country/Territory | Bangladesh |
| City | Dhaka |
| Period | 25/10/22 → 27/10/22 |
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