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Adoption of Poultry Farming Technologies for Increased Poultry Production in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa state

Ajuwa H. A, Elenwa C.O and Isife, B. I.

Abstract

The study examined poultry farming technologies for increased poultry production in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select 150 respondents. Data were obtained through the use of structured questionnaire and analyzed using frequency, percentage and mean. From the result, more than half (54.7%) of the respondents were female, the average age and monthly income of the respondents were 37 years and N34,000 respectively. The respondents were aware of some poultry farming technologies such as automated feeding system (84.0%), health monitoring (50.7%) among others. Watering system (78.7%), precision nutrition (50.7%), lighting control (48.7%), biosecurity (48.3%) were available poultry farming technologies. Enhanced efficiency (x=3.19), animal welfare (x=3.10), enhanced biosecurity (x=3.07) among others, are the perceived benefits of using poultry farming technologies. Factors militating against the use of poultry farming technologies were lack of technical expertise (x=3.49), limited access to finance (x=3.45), erratic power supply (x=3.38) among others. The respondents’ awareness of poultry farming technologies did not significantly influence the use. It was recommended that more awareness of poultry farming technologies should be created and increased through advocacy and public enlightenment campaigns by poultry farmers’ group and other stakeholders.

Keywords

Poultry Farming TechnologiesIncreasedPoultry ProductionYenagoa LGA

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