GUINEA PIG MANAGEMENT MANUAL - Benson Institute

PROJECTION OF ANNUAL INCOME (Bs.)
Detail Amount Unit price Total price
Sale of guinea pig meat 990 8.0 7,920
The total costs of food have been calculated en Bs. 3,298.3, which in a livestock production
become 65 to 70% of the total costs of production. Therefore, they are considered as other costs
(sanitary supplies, manual labor, material and equipment). Thirty five percent means Bs.
1,154.4, making a total of Bs. 4,452.7 of production costs. On the basis of these determinations,
the benefit is Bs. 3,467.3 over the inverted capital, making a 77.9% increase.
VIII. COMMERCIALIZATION, LABOR AND CONSUMPTION OF
COMMERCIALIZATION
GUINEA PIG MEAT
The ease of communication between rural and suburban areas, the likes and preferences of the
consumers, as well as the necessity of interchange that the rural person has, has started a system
of informal communication that has not constituted in an incentive for breeding. The lack of
technicians that permit the development of this product in urban markets, which is constituted in
factors that stop the development of guinea pig breeding.
Figure 26: Storage methods for guinea pigs to the urban market of Cochabamba
The dominant forms of commercialization in market are live guinea pigs without determining the
weight or age of the animal.
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