Abstract:
Indigenous chicken production in particular plays an important socioeconomic roles in
developing countries. Smallholder farming families, landless labourers and people with incomes
below the poverty line are able to raise chicken with low inputs and harvest the benefits of eggs
and meat through scavenging feed resources. This paper assessed the Contribution of Indigenous
Chicken Production to the household income and improvement of food. A cross-sectional study
was carried out to assess the contribution of indigenous chicken production to household income
and improvement of food by using questionnaire survey, focus group discussion, field visits and
documentary review. Four villages were randomly selected and a total of 110 households were
participated during questionnaire survey.The study revealed that, indigenous chicken project
could improve household income and food dietary at household through provision of meat and
eggs. In addition, chickens are kept also for traditional values and social function issues.
However, there are several challenges facing indigenous chicken production such as diseases
outbreak e.g Newcastle diseases and lack of enough capital to facilitate chicken feeds, housing
and vaccination. In order for indigenous chicken to contribute effectively to the household
income and improvement of food, provision of capital, training on chicken diseases control and
improve of chicken keeping system should be in palace. |
