Influence Of Increase In Price On Poultry Production In Nigeria

(A CASE STUDY OF AKURE, ONDO STATE) CHAPTER TWO REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE INTRODUCTION Poultry are the smallest livestock investment a village household can make. Yet the poverty stricken farmer needs credit assistance even to manage this first investment step on the ladder out of poverty. Poultry keeping is traditionally the role of women in many developing countries. Female-headed households represent 20 to 30 percent of all rural households in Bangladesh (Saleque, 1999), and women are more disadvantaged in terms of options for income generation. In sub-Saharan Africa, 85 percent of …