Economics of Quail Production in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria
| العنوان: | Economics of Quail Production in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria |
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| المؤلفون: | Khadijat Busola Amolegbe, A. Muhammad-Lawal, Abdulrasheed Oladimeji Abdulsalam |
| المصدر: | Journal of Agricultural Extension; Vol 21, No 2 (2017); 44-53 |
| بيانات النشر: | African Journals Online (AJOL), 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Net profit, Descriptive statistics, Quail production, Quail farmers, Quail in Kwara State, Production cost, Development, Production efficiency, Production–possibility frontier, Gross margin, Variable cost, Education, Agricultural science, Operations management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Stock (geology), Mathematics |
| الوصف: | This study assesses the economics of quail production in Ilorin, Kwara state. Structured questionnaires were used to elicit information from 56 farmers that were selected with the use of a snow-ball sampling technique. Major tools of analysis for the study included descriptive statistic, gross margin analysis, Stochastic Production Frontier Model and 4 points Likert-type. The results of the findings revealed that both male and female are actively involved in the production i.e. 54.7% and 45.3% respectively with about 83% of the respondents in their active age range of 31-50 years and 66% have tertiary education. Also, results from the gross margin analysis show that an average farmer incurred a sum of ₦212,850 on variable costs with feed carrying the highest percentage (73%) and had an average net profit of ₦172,830. Feed, stock size, experience and farmer’s educational level are statistically significant to the production efficiency at different levels of probability as shown by the stochastic frontier result and farmers have a mean technical efficiency of 60.53%. The research therefore recommended that efforts should be made to reduce production cost through reduction in feed cost via establishment of more feed mills which are to be monitored by the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) to maintain standard. |
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| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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