Poultry Feed Sources, Socioeconomic Factors and Constraints Facing Commercial Poultry Farmers in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State

All these pose great challenge to the survival and expansion of poultry business in Nigeria towards meeting nutritional requirements of the populace and assisting the government in the implementation of the ban on poultry products importation. [...] Table 2 showed that 18.89% of the respondents had a household size of 3-4, while the majority (81.11%) of the respondents had a household size of 4-5. [...] The result further showed that 2.22% of the respondents had spent < 5 years in poultry farm business, while 61.11% of the respondents had 6-16 years of experience, 35.56% had up to 17-27 years of experience, while 1.11% of the respondents had >38 years of experience. [...] Sources of Poultry feed Table 3 examined the sources of poultry feed in the study area. [...] CONCLUSION The result of the analysis revealed that the mean age of commercial poultry farmers in the study area was 48 years.