Rural Dwellers’ Involvement in Livestock Farming in Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State

Abstract

This study investigated the involvement in livestock farming as a mean of livelihood among rural dwellers in Egbeda Local Government Area o f Oyo State, Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was employed to sample 120 rural dwellers while 120 questionnaires were administered and retrieved. The data collected were subjected to descriptive (percentage, mean, mode, std deviation) and inferential (chi-square and correlation) statistics. The result revealed that majority (63.3%) of the respondent were involved in livestock rearing and most of the respondent were highly involved in livestock farming in which goat (58.4%) and poultry (78.9%) were mostly reared. Most of the respondents (70.8%) engage in livestock farming as their primary source of income and livelihood. Inadequate capital (87.5%) and infrastructural (38.3%) were the major constraints facing the respondents in the study area. Chi-square analysis revealed that there is a significant (p<0.05) relationship between the constraint and involvement in livestock farming as a means of livelihood. The study therefore concluded that the majority of the rural dwellers were involved in livestock farming for their livelihood. Rural development activities should always be made to encourage getting involved in livestock farming and ensure availability of loan facilities, ensure adult education for the farmer s in livestock farming in the study area.

Rural dwellers involvement in small scale poultry farming in Oluyole Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria

“…This is possibly because feed constitutes the most expensive aspect of poultry production. This is in line with earlier reports (Okeke et al, 2018, Oyelami andAjanaku, 2019) that finance is one of the major constraints of livestock farmers in the rural area. The result shows that the majority (82.8%) of the respondents strongly agrees that poultry serves as source of income, 76.3% strongly agrees it is a source of meat, 62.4% strongly agrees that poultry is a source of food, 48.4% strongly agrees that poultry is a source of employment, Not fewer than 97.8% of the respondents agrees that they derived job satisfaction in poultry farming.…”

“…This shows that respondents involve in the poultry farming in the study area are in their active ages when the strength as well as energy to work is readily available. This corroborates the findings of past studies (Adisa and Akinkunmi, 2012;Gingras et al, 2008, Okeke et al, 2018Oyelami and Ajanaku 2019) who reported that younger people are more involved in livestock farming than aged people. This implies that the younger the farmers the better the productivity.…”