Livelihood improvement through family poultry farming in Mymensingh district

Abstract

The present study was done to examine the employment and income generation of small farmers through family poultry. The objectives of the study were to identify socio economic features of family poultry, to examine the impact of family poultry on household improvement, to determine cost, return and profitability of family poultry, to identify the problems faced by family poultry farmer and for its improvement. The data were collected from 90 family poultry farms from Sadarupazila and Trishalupazila of Mymensingh district through face to face interview. The result of the study shows that, the average gross return, gross cost and net return of family poultry farms were Tk. 7314.84, Tk. 3698.90 and Tk. 3615.94 respectively. The Benefit cost ratio was 1.98. Therefore, family poultry farm is highly profitable. The study also determined the impact of family poultry production on livelihood of poultry farmers. The income of 60% poultry farms has increased and for savings, it was 32%. The physical assets (agricultural tools and furniture and equipment's) of poultry farms have improved by 57% and 27% respectively. Sanitation, drinking water facility and medicinal facility of poultry farmers were improved by 26%, 18% and 37% respectively. It is also found from the study that the livelihood of 38% poultry farmers was improved through family poultry production.

Community Poultry Project for Conserving the Wildlife Species in Magombera Forest, Tanzania

“…Findings from Rufiji district (Tanzania) showed that poultry production increased income of families and provide protein to local communities adjacent to the Selous Game Reserve [5]. This is in agreement with other studies such as [7,12], which showed that, through accessibility of food, employment and income from poultry production, family livelihood is improved. During our study, we noticed one chicken costs Tanzanian shillings 15,000/= (equivalent to 7USD) which implies that, if local communities are supported via chicken production in these villages, they are able to generate a basic income that caters for school fees for kids, clothing, food, shelter and health care.…”

“…These alternative sources include poultry and other livestock production, crop cultivation, beekeeping, and tourism ventures. Kabir et al [7] showed that poultry production has several advantages over other livestock keeping. Among these benefits are improved livelihood, high growth rate, market availability, adaptation to different climatic conditions, and production of quality protein with less cholesterol than other livestock keeping [8].…”

“…Although poultry production can be used as a conservation tool for wildlife species in Magombera forest, there are still some challenges facing it. Studies such as [7,9,10] revealed that the main challenge for poultry production in Tanzania is diseases due to climate, management and environments. Understanding the challenges of poultry production at a local level is essential for proper and strategic introduction of the project as a tool for conserving wildlife species.…”

Constraints facing poultry producers in Iraq

“…There are ten hatcheries in the province compared to 273 poultry enterprises/projects (CSO, 2017). The respondents put this constraint as fourth in rank, in line with findings of Adetayo et al,(2013); Mendes et al, (2014);Ali et al, (2015); Kabir et al, (2015) and Onono et al, (2018).…”

“…Modern intensive and semi-intensive poultry production requires high capital investment. Among financial constraints, Poultry producers ranked lack of capital as fourth, which is in line with results of Kabir et al, (2015) and Hassan et al, (2016).…”