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Egg incubators are not a cheap product to sell for use by an average family in a developing country like Nepal. Small egg incubators would help backyard family farmers but there would not be an abundance of meat to sell at the market. Since there is a 21-day hatching period and the incubators can only hold seven eggs at a time, the meat will most likely be beneficial to feed the family for the month. It is very unlikely that an average family will be able to afford a medium or large incubator for backyard or rural farms higher in the mountains. Incubators need constant electricity in order to work, not possible in most parts of Nepal since there is no electricity. Cities like Kathmandu have electricity but continuously suffer from constant blackouts. The egg incubator would be an excellent purchase for Nepalese hatcheries since they have hundreds of eggs and a market to sell their product. Since they are industrial hatcheries they can afford to buy generators so blackouts are not a problem. Also heating light bulbs on the incubators need to be changed when they burn out along with other electrical parts. Industrial poultry farms can afford the extra cost in parts and potentially pay someone to fix the incubator. There are very little people in Nepal that are capable of fixing electronic machinery and it would be very hard to find spare parts for the incubator unless the farm is close to Kathmandu. Family farms in rural parts of the country will most certainly stay with the traditional way of hatching eggs and not consider purchasing an incubator. With expensive shipping cost and small market, it would not be worthwhile to constantly ship egg incubators to Nepal from Canada. If the industrial hatcheries wanted egg incubators, they could purchase it from a company in China which would cheaper in manufacturing and shipping since China is right above Nepal.
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