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Opportunities and Challenges Facing Smallholder Participation in Indigenous Poultry Production in Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya
- Raphael Mwiti Gikunda; Erastus Mwiti Mutegi
- Kenya has an estimated poultry population of 29 million, of these, 22 million (75 %) are free-ranging indigenous chickens. Poultry keeping is especially attractive to poor households as they require low start-up capital and have low maintenance costs. Besides, increasing demand occasioned by an increase in population in the County as a results arising from among other reasons; the opening of Chuka University as a constituent college in 2004, the productivity of indigenous poultry in the County has been low. The study adopted a descriptive research design as it was aimed at describing the status of indigenous poultry production in the County. A structured questionnaire was used to obtain farm level information from smallholder farmers. The descriptive statistics used were frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation. Inferential statistics included Pearson product correlation coefficient and chi square. Correlation analysis established positive significant relationships between the institutional factors and adoption of indigenous poultry production. The correlation coefficient between access to extension service and adoption of indigenous poultry was 0.304**, that of access to credit and adoption was 0.290**, and access to breeding stock and adoption was 0.361**.Based on the findings, the main problems facing indigenous poultry production were pest and diseases, and insecurity. It was also clear that the enterprise has a number of opportunities which ranges from unmet demand of indigenous poultry products, increased household income, food security and nutrition to creation of job opportunities.
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- 2015
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- Keywords:
- Challenges; Indigenous Chickens; Opportunities; Participation; Smallholder
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- Volume:
- 4
- Number:
- 2
- Pages:
- 295-300
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- September
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