Constraints Affecting Stakeholders’ Services Delivery among Commercial Poultry Farmers in Southwest, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was carried out in Southwest, Nigeria. Survey research was adopted for the study. For the sampling procedure, a multistage sampling procedure was used to select to respondents for the study. The first stage involves random selection of three states namely; Ogun, Oyo and Ondo State from the six states in the Southwest. The second stage involves the purposive selection of three Local Government Areas with prominence in poultry enterprise. The third stage involves cluster sampling technique to select three hundred and sixty five (365) poultry farmers from the LGA initially selected. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that most of the respondents faced severe constraints of high interest rate (x̄ =1.99), for non-availability of vehicles (x̄= 1.99), long distance to market (x̄ = 1.99), long distance to research institutes (x̄ = 1.94), high cost of extension agents patronage and unavailability of subsidized prices of inputs (x̄ = 1.95) in their production activities. The study concluded that constraints such as high interest rate, non-availability of vehicles, long distance to market, inadequate research institutes, high cost of extension agents patronage and unavailability of susidised prices of inputs affected stakeholders’ services delivery on productivity of commercial poultry farmers in the study area. It is therefore recommended that government and stakeholders should make available necessary policies, infrastructural facilities and poultry equipment to the farmers.