Table 6.
Evaluating the economic efficiency per m3.
| Items | Feeding frequency (number of meals d−1) |
PES* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 (FF1) | T2 (FF2) | T3 (FF3) | T4 (FF4) | ||
| Production, kg/m3 | 0.480d | 0.560b | 0.580a | 0.549c | 0.014 |
| Production price, $ | 3.600b | 3.950b | 4.080a | 3.840b | 0.089 |
| Feed cost, $ | 1.080a | 0.940b | 0.840c | 0.890b | 0.039 |
| value Add (VA), $ | 2.280c | 3.020b | 3.240a | 2.950b | 0.130 |
| Economic conversion ratio (ECR) | 2.800a | 1.970b | 1.510c | 1.740bc | 0.190 |
| Incident cost (IC) | 2.250a | 1.660b | 1.440c | 1.620b | 0.120 |
| Profit index (PI) | 3.110b | 4.200a | 4.850a | 4.300a | 0.250 |
The values are the mean of triplicate groups in the same row with distinct superscripts are statistically different (P > 0.05).
*, PSE is pooled standard error.
$ is dollar of United States of America.