THE STRUCTURE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMERCIAL AND VILLAGE BASED POULTRY INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA
Table Of Contents
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CONTENTS </p><p>CONTENTS-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------i </p><p>LIST OF TABLES---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------iv </p><p>LIST OF FIGURES------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------v </p><p>LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS------------------------------------------------------------------------------------vi </p><p><b>
Chapter ONE
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1. INTRODUCTION---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 </p><p>1.1 Background Information-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 </p><p>1.2 Scope of Study-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 </p><p>1.3 Data sources, Approach of Analysis---------------------------------------------------------------------2 </p><p>1.4 Limitation and Constraints---------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 </p><p>1.5 Layout of Report---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 </p><p><b>
Chapter TWO
</b> </p><p>2. OVERVIEW OF POULTRY PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA------------------------------------------4 </p><p>2.1 Preamble------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 </p><p>2.2 Description of Main Characteristics-------------------------------------------------------------------4 </p><p>2.2.1 Structure Commercial Poultry in Nigeria----------------------------------------------------------6 </p><p> A. Production Capacity (Pre-HPAI)---------------------------------------------------------------7 </p><p> B. Housing and Husbandry Practices-----------------------------------------------------------7 </p><p> C. Hatchery Capacity-------------------------------------------------------------------------------8 </p><p> D. Disease control and poultry health----------------------------------------------------------8</p><p> E. Poultry Products-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 </p><p> F. The Number and Spread Sectors 2 and 3 Operators------------------------------------12 </p><p>2.2.2 Backyard and Rural Poultry Sector 4-------------------------------------------------------------13
</p><p> A. Preamble----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13 </p><p> B. Husbandry Practices-------------------------------------------------------------------------14 </p><p> C. Trends in growth-------------------------------------------------------------------------------17 </p><p> D. Diseases Losses and Health----------------------------------------------------------------19 </p><p> E. Productivity and Flock Profile----------------------------------------------------------------20 </p><p>2.3 Size of the Poultry (Livestock) Sub-sector------------------------------------------------------------20 </p><p> A. Backyard Poultry-----------------------------------------------------------------------------21 </p><p> B. Commercial Poultry--------------------------------------------------------------------------27 </p><p><b>
Chapter THREE
</b> </p><p>3 .POULTRY HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY----------------------------------------------------------31 </p><p>3.1. Taste and Preferences------------------------------------------------------------------------------------31 </p><p>3.2. National and Household Expenditure ----------------------------------------------------------------32 </p><p>3.2.1 Local Production from Commercial Poultry--------------------------------------------------------32 </p><p>3.2.2 Imports of Poultry Products----------------------------------------------------------------------------33 </p><p>3.2.3 Stocks Slaughtered By Households for Consumption------------------------------------------33 </p><p><b>
Chapter FOUR
</b></p><p> 4. .MARKETING OF POULTRY INPUTS AND PRODUCTS-----------------------------------------36 </p><p>4.1 Poultry Inputs--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------36 </p><p>4.1.1 Feed-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------36 </p><p>4.1.2 Drugs, Supplements and Vaccines--------------------------------------------------------------------38 </p><p>4.1.3 Housing--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------38 </p><p>4.2 Poultry Products------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------39 </p><p>4.2.1 Products Distribution-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------39 </p><p>4.2.2 Products Pricing and Prices-------------------------------------------------------------------------------42 </p><p>4.2.3 Slaughtering and Processing------------------------------------------------------------------------------42 </p><p>4.2.4 Transportation of Products--------------------------------------------------------------------------------42 </p><p>4.3 Marketing of Products from Rural Poultry--------------------------------------------------------------42 </p><p>4.4 Regional (Inter-State) Trade in Poultry Products---------------------------------------------------43 </p><p><b>
Chapter FIVE
</b></p><p>5. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT PROGRAMME TO THE POULTRY
SECTOR -------------------44 </p><p>5.1 Historical Background and Transition to the Current Status---------------------------------------44 </p><p>5.2. The Thrust and Examples of FGN Support Programmes------------------------------------------45 </p><p>5.2.1 General Policies on Livestock and Meat/Dairy Policies-------------------------------------------45 </p><p>5.2.2 Poultry Production Policy---------------------------------------------------------------------------------45 </p><p>5.3 Support Policies------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------48 </p><p>5.3.1 Price support Policies-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------48 </p><p>5.3.2 Methods of implementing producer price support schemes-------------------------------------48 </p><p>5.3.3 Non-Price measures--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------48 </p><p>5.3.4 Consumption Patterns and Policy--------------------------------------------------------------------48 </p><p>5.3.5 International Trade Policies----------------------------------------------------------------------------48 </p><p>5.4 Developments in International Technical Assistance-----------------------------------------------49 </p><p>5.5 Pilot Vaccination Programme of Rural Poultry Against Newcastle Disease.--------------------49 </p><p>5.6 The Millennium Development Goal Project of Federal Ministry
of Agriculture-----------------49 </p><p>5.7 Presidential Initiative on Livestock------------------------------------------------------------------------50 </p><p>5.7.1 Background--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------50 </p><p>5.7.2 Targets--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------50 </p><p>5.7.3. Funds Requirement and Funding---------------------------------------------------------------------52 </p><p>5.7.4 Implementation--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------52 </p><p><b>CHAPTER SIX </b></p><p>6. OFFICIAL REGULATIONS AND INTERVANTIONS IN POULTRY
HEALTH (IN PARTICULAR AVIAN INFLUENZA MEASURES.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------54 </p><p>6.1 The Animal Diseases (Control) Decree-------------------------------------------------------------54 </p><p>6.1.1 Technical Overview of the Decree----------------------------------------------------------------54 </p><p>6.2. Management of Avian Influenza Outbreak in Nigeria.------------------------------------------55 </p><p>6.2.1 Pre-epidemic Background in Nigeria--------------------------------------------------------------55 </p><p>6.2.2 Preparedness Plans in Nigeria---------------------------------------------------------------------55 </p><p>6.2.3 Poultry Sector and Public Reactions-------------------------------------------------------------56 </p><p>6.2.4 Aspects of Bird Flu Emergency & Management Responses in Nigeria.-----------------57 </p><p>6.2.5 Current Status and Trends in Flu Outbreaks---------------------------------------------------57 </p><p>6.2. 6 Compensation Programme-----------------------------------------------------------------------58 </p><p>6.2.7 International Support-------------------------------------------------------------------------------59 </p><p>6.2.8 Implications of AI in Nigeria for the Rural Poultry Sector
and its Genetic Base -----60 </p><p>6.2.9 Slaughtering for a the Stamping-out of AI------------------------------------------------------60 </p><p>6.2.10 Implications for the Rural Poultry structure and Genetic base ---------------------------61 </p><p><b>CHAPTER SEVEN </b> </p><p>7. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS----------------------------------------------------62 </p><p>CHAPTER EIGHT--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------63</p><p> 8. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS-------------------------------------------------63 </p><p>8.1 Conclusions--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------63 </p><p>8.2 Recommendations----------------------------------------------------------------------------------63 </p><p>MAJOR REFERENCES CITED </p><p>65
APPENDICES </p>
Thesis Abstract
Thesis Overview
<p><b>1. INTRODUCTION </b></p><p><b>1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY</b></p><p>Agriculture continues to be the most important sector of the Nigerian economy in terms
of provision of employment in spite of its declining contribution to the nations foreign
exchange earnings. About 65% of Nigerians are estimated to depend on agriculture for
their livelihood while 34.8% of the GDP and over 38% of the non-oil foreign exchange
earnings, are contributed by the agricultural sector.
Agricultural contributed an estimated 32% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1998 to
the Nigerian economy. An estimated 35.2% of the labour force was employed in the
sector in that year. The principal cash crops are cocoa (which accounted for only 0.7% of
total merchandise exports in 1995), rubber and oil palm. Staple foods include rice, maize,
taro, yams, cassava, sorghum and millet. Timber production, the raising of livestock
(principally goats, sheep, cattle and poultry), and artisanal fisheries are also important.
According to World Bank estimates, agricultural GDP increased at an annual rate of
2.9% in 1990-98. The sector remains the largest contributor to the Nigerian economy,
accounting for over 38% of the non-oil foreign exchange earnings, and employing about
70% of the active labour force of the population. Although, the sector has suffered much
neglect by the Federal Government since the discovery of petroleum in commercial
quantity in 1958, but its importance cannot be over emphasized in the Nigerian economy.
The poultry sub-sector is the most commercialised (capitalised) of all the sub-sectors of
the Nigeria’s agriculture. There is however no comprehensive data on the sub-sector;
thus making proactive intervention and planning in the sub-sector due to lack of accurate
information or current data.
With the global spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) across several
countries since 2003 and especially, the confirmation of the epidemic in Nigeria in
February 2006, there is a new attention focussed on the sub-sector by the Government of
Nigeria (GoN) and the international community. As part of this new initiative, FAO
intends to collate the available current information in order to provide an overview of the
poultry sub-sector in Nigeria. This report titled “The Structure and Importance of the
Commercial and Village Based Poultry Industry in Nigeria” is prepared for this
purpose. </p><p>1.2 <b>SCOPE OF STUDY AND TERMS OF REFERENCE </b> </p><p>This study was designed to be a desk review of the poultry sector in Nigeria. It was to be
used for further investigation on, either the epidemiology of Avian Influenza and/or other
poultry diseases and their socio-economic impact. The report emanating from the study,
based on statistical data, reports, literature information and interviews with key
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stakeholders, is to provide a 5-year overview of developments in the poultry sector. It
includes a review of the structure of different poultry production systems; husbandry
practices, poultry health measures; evolving marketing chains; the role of poultry in rural
livelihoods and household food security, and policy/economic factors which have
contributed to changes in the sector.
The detailed terms of reference is presented in Appendix 1 </p><p>1.3 <b>DATA SOURCES, COLLECTION APPROACH AND ANALYSIS</b></p><p>The data for this study were collected mostly from secondary sources. The sources
include: Federal Livestock and Pest Control Department, National Bureau of Statistics,
Poultry agro-industrial entities, selected or representative rural poultry keeping
households, as well as institutional sources of published and unpublished documents, etc.
Data collection was guided with checklists of information that were designed to elicit
information to meet the terms of reference. In selected cases, complementary data were
actively sourced through interviews with stakeholders.
The data analyses were both qualitative and quantitative. Quantitative analysis and
extrapolations were carried out wherever possible to provide information on the structure
and size of the operations in the poultry sub-sector. </p><p>1.4 <b>LIMITATIONS AND CONSTRAINTS</b></p><p>The major limitation is paucity and in some cases, the accuracy of information, which can
provide a comprehensive overview of the poultry sub-sector. The Federal Livestock and
Pests Control Department has not carried out any nation-wide survey of the sub-sector in
recent years. The National Bureau of Statistics, until 2005, had not conducted any survey
on the sector for several years. In addition, the year-2005 survey, which covered the subsector and is still being processed, has significant gaps arising from lack of appropriate
inputs from poultry subject matter experts and socio-economists. Thus as much as
possible, proxy variables were used to obtain indicative quantitative overview of the subsector. It therefore became crucial to cross-integrate data from other related sources to
achieve improved accuracy. These were also combined with information obtained from
experts and operators in the sub-sector to develop this report. Nigeria is a very extensive
country which demands equally extensive travels to reach data sources. The lack of
e-data sources further compelled physical contacts directly or through proxies in the
diverse and country-wide locations.
In spite of these, this exercise has generated very considerable data and yielded a very
good and full overview of the poultry sub-sector. In the report wherever necessary, the
specific data requirements for the future are highlighted and suggestions or justifications
are made to guide such future contingencies.
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