http://196.220.128.81:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/142 2026-05-20T06:32:04Z http://196.220.128.81:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5886 PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF POULTRY VENTURES IN LAGOS STATE; PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF POULTRY VENTURES IN LAGOS STATE AFOLABI, M.O; AFOLABI, M.O Investigation of problems and prospects of poultry ventures in Lagos State is the subject of this study. The closure of many renown poultry farms in the state is one of the principal factors that motivated the research. Lagos State was divided into seven agricultural zones. The data were collected using a three tier methodological approach of questionnaire administration, unstructured oral interview and non-participant observation. The analysis which followed was done using the two-way Analysis of Variance. Poultry farmers in Lagos concentrated mainly on poultry alone except for a few that combined crop production with poultry, The choice of about 80% of these farmers centred on raising layers for table-egg production. Some combined broiler production(meat production) in their operation. The cage system of operation was commonly adopted and mostly 70% of the farmers used open sided buildings. The major problems encountered by farmers in Lagos State were high feed cost and disease prevalence. While the problem of feed revolved round the cost of the feed which was generally considered to be expensive. by most farmers, diseases such as gomboro, fowl pox and coccidiosis were 30% in the state. Drugs. to combat these diseases were generally expensive to purchase. Although labour was relatively cheap and easily available, their remuneration was low. This was possibly responsible for various vices practised by the poultry workers. Such vices included stealing and laziness at work. Between 40% and 50% of poultry products were marketed through open markets and farm gate sales and demand was adequate and encouraging. Despite all the predicaments befalling the poultry venture, there existed prospects for the business in Lagos State. 54p.:ill;30cm 2002-05-25T00:00:00Z http://196.220.128.81:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5885 EVALUATION OF PHYSICAL BODY TRAITS AND SOME BLOOD CHARACTERISTICS OF WEST AFRICAN DWARF GOATS IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA ADEBAYO, JULIUS OLUBUKOLA Two hundred West African Dwarf (WAD) goats aged 1-6 years were examined during a 10-months period, from October, 2003 to July, 2004 in randomly selected locations within South Western Zones of Nigeria. Qualitative traits namely coat colour, polled trait, presence or absence of teat, wattle and beard were examined and described in all the experimental animals. Black colour observed in 54% of the animals predominate while brown and mixed colours accounted for 16% and 30% of all the animals respectively. All goats studio irrespective of sex were horned. The goats had a pair of teat each except eight goats with supernumerary teats. Possession of beard was common in all bucks observed but 8.5% of the females had. beard. About 36.5% of all the WAD goats examined possessed wattle. The linear body measurements recorded in this study included body length (BL), chest girth (CG), height at girth (HG), height at wither (HW), leg lcngtl. (LL), shoulder to tail length (STL), nose to shoulder length (NL), tail length (TL) and ear length (EL). There was no sex difference in body weight and linear body' measurements with the exception ofTL. Location effects were observed for HW, TL and EL while the effect or age was significant (1)<0.05) for body weight arid linear body measurement apart from CG and NSL. In general, the body weight, linear body measurements (except HE, EL and CG) and blood parameters (except MCV,' MCHC and ALB: GLB) were not significantly (P>0.05) influenced by the qualitative traits studied. Correlations among the traits were positive and among all the linear body measurements reported, BL, HW and LL could be used to predict the body weight. Location, sex and age had 110 significant (P>O.OS) effect on the haematogical indices studied-except RBC and some erythrocyte indices (MCV and MCH). With the exception of ALB: GLB, all serum indices were not significantly influenced by location, sex and age. 76p.:ill;30cm 2006-12-21T00:00:00Z http://196.220.128.81:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5864 ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF INCOME LEVELS OF CIVIL SERVANTS ON THEIR NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN ONDO STATE NIGERIA. ULEANYA, ADAKU Nigeria is a country with rich natural and material resources. However the ability to harness these resources effectively and efficiently in a way that the food needs of its citizens are met has always and is still a major issue to the nation. Income change's, by way of salary and wage increases, has been a means through which government seeks to improve the standard of living of its citizens. This study therefore aims at examining; the socio economic characteristics of households in Ondo State, the influence of certain socio economic characteristics on the daily protein and calorie intake and the poverty profile among identified households. Structured questionnaire are used to source primary dates from' 250 sampled households. However only 177 of the sampled housed were used in the analysis (Akure south 80 households, Akure North 32 households, and 65 households for Ifedore L.G.A.) Data collected were analysed using descriptive Statistics (Frequency and percentage Table and means), Food and Energy Intake (FEI) method, poverty head count ratio regression. The (FEI) method was used to establish a food poverty line among the respondents. The poverty head count ratio was used to ascertain the proportion of the population whose food expenditure is below the food expenditure poverty line. The monthly intake of Calorie and Protein functions were estimated using the Ordinary Least Square method (OLS). The average households were made up of 5 person in all the L.G.As (Akure south, Akure north and Ifedore L.G.A). 68.4% of house hold were male headed (55% in Akure south, 84.4% in Akure south and 76.9% in Ifedore L.G.A.). More than 67% of house holds hired in 'flats and about 75% are in rented apartments. The mean monthly rent was Wl,756 (N2, 935 in Akure south, NI, 983 in Akure north, and Nl,665 in Ifedore L.G.As). Major source of drinking water was 'well water, about 470/0of all house holds. While kerosene was the major source fuel used in cooking (77% of the population used kerosene ).National Electric power Authority was the major source of power supply, supplying about 90% of house holds. A means monthly income of N14,726, Nll,987, and W12820 for Akure south, Akure north and lfedore L.G.As, respectively, and an overall means monthly income of~13,178= was revealed by the study. Average monthly expenditure stood at N19,293 (W20,904, Akure south N19,4~5 Akure north and W17,550 Ifedore L.G.As). Average monthly expenditure on food as revealed by the study was W7,53I (36%) in Akure south, W6,503 (33.5%) in Akure north and W7,328 (42%) in Ifedore L.G.As. Poverty line as measured by the (FEI) method was Wl,826=33 (Nl,919.20k for Akure south, Wl,726=41 for Akure north, Wl,832.52 for Ifedore L.G.As). Consumption poverty as measured by the head count index is 0.56,0.48, and 0.52 represent 56%, 48%, and 52% for Akure south, Akure North and Tfedore L.G.As respectively. Consumption function estimated for monthly caloric intake and monthly protein intake for house holds, showed that house hold size, Educational level of individual household members, number of children in house holds, influenced the calorie and protein intake of the households. 71p.:ill;30cm 2006-07-01T00:00:00Z http://196.220.128.81:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5863 ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF GUM ARABIC PRODUCTION IN YOSE STATE, NIGERIA WURANTI, VALLA This study seeks to provide information on the economics of Gum Arabic Production in Yobe State. A sample of one hundred and twenty (120) gum Arabic farmers from seven (7) Local Government Areas (LGAs) where gum Arabic is grown in Yobe State was made. Primary data were collected using questionnaire to elicit needed information on production, revenue, resource use efficiency and constraints as well as solutions to the identified problems. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics, budgetry technique and the production function analysis. The results showed that majority (73.33%) of the farmers were male and fall within the age bracket of 41 to 60 years. The farmers were operating on small-scale levels cultivating one to three hectares of land on the average. Family and hired labour were found to constitute themajor source of farm labour with household size of between six and ten.A yield of 200kg/ha was recorded on the average by the farmers in the study area. Gross margin analysis indicated that, Net Farm Income per farmer. per hectare was N19,430:00, implying that Gum Arabic production by small-scale farmers in Yobe State is profitable. The empirical results of the production function analysis also revealed that the production variables (farm size in ha, experience in years, transportation cost, in Naira) were statistically significant at 5% level and were positively related to farmers output. The efficiency of resource used by farmers indicated that family labour was over-utilized in the production process and farm size was under-utilized. Again, farmers were observed to be operating in the stage II of the production process with a Returns to Scale of 0.29. The findings identified problems faced by the farmers which include, long gestation period of the Gum tree, inadequate production inputs, lack of processing facilities, illegal tree cutting, and bush burnings and poor transportation network. 64p.:ill;30cm 2006-06-03T00:00:00Z