IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

WORLD JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (WJEDS )

E-ISSN 2579-0544
P-ISSN 2695-2483
VOL. 5 NO. 1 2020

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Quality Entrepreneurship in Poultry Farming: The Need for Skills Acquisition among Youths in Rivers State, Nigeria

Owo, Offia Tugwell

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Abstract

The study was conducted to ascertain the relationship between quality entrepreneurship in poultry farming and the need for skills acquisition among youths in Rivers State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was used in the study whose population consisted of 1200 unemployed youths from Andoni and Khana local governments areas of Rivers State. Accidental sampling technique was used to obtain a sample of 420 youths from the population. Three research questions were posed to guide the study. The instrument used for data collection was a 30-item questionnaire which was face-validated by two experts in agricultural education and entrepreneurship studies. The reliability of the instrument was established via Cronbach’s Alpha method having yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.88. A total of 388 questionnaires were successfully retrieved and used for data analysis from the 420 distributed. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the research questions. The findings revealed among others that poultry farmers need interpersonal, problem solving, creative thinking, and effective communication skills among others to start, progress and succeed in poultry farm business. Consequently, it was recommended among others that unemployed youths in Rivers State should be encouraged to acquire entrepreneurship and vocational skills to succeed in poultry farm business.

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