ANALYSIS OF LOCAL CHICKEN PRODUCTION AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN MALAM MADORI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, JIGAWA STATE

Abstract

The study examined local chicken production among rural women in Mallam Madori Local Government Area of Jigawa State. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 69 rural women engaged in local chicken production. Data for the study were collected using structured questionnaire. Simple descriptive statistics such as mean, frequency distribution table and bar charts were used to analyzed the data collected for the study. The results shows that majority (71%) of the rural women were between 31 to 51 years of age with mainly secondary education. 78.26% of the rural women engaged local chicken production were married. About 69.56% had 1-10 years of local chicken production experience. 84.06% had earned between N5,000-N19,500 from local chicken production per annum. The common disease affecting local chicken production were fowl cholera (44.92%) and new castle disease (36.25%). Disease incident (78.25%) was the leading cause of mortality of local chicken. The leading constraints to local chicken were lack of training (30.43%) and vaccination costs (27.57%). The study concludes that local chicken production development inhibited by diseases, lack of training and cost of feedings. Therefore, it is recommended that the underlying inhibitors to growth and development of local chicken production among rural women should be addressed.