AGRICULTURE; The best way out of National Economical woe

Are you planning to set up your own poultry farm and needed to carry out feasibility study on poultry farming. It create great business opportunity for Entrepreneurs, and provides employment for the job seeking citizens. This feasibility study will help you make your decision as regards starting your own poultry farm. The Chicken and it’s products are very rich source of protein of which we all agreed to that – you and I need the proteins derived from chicken to maintain healthy living. It is generally believed that every child needs not less than an egg a day for their normal growth. While every adult needs like ten in a week; Poultry also provides meat for delicacies – no tribe or religion that forbids chicken meat. Everyone likes it, that’s why poultry products sells very fast and in high demand. The Benefits of Poultry Farming are so numerous that this page may not contain it all. Apart from the chicken being used as food, Poultry Farming is equally profitable. A go...

Common Poultry diseases  are no doubt one of the major challenges facing the  poultry farming business industry  in Nigeria . There have been many cases where farmers lost several thousands of dollars’ worth of investments due to sudden poultry disease outbreak. Poultry diseases are commonly caused by Bacteria, Viruses, Parasites and Fungi. Apart from this, improper poultry farm management skills, feeding of unhealthy feeds and unclean poultry environment can also leads to poultry disease outbreak. For instance,  Infectious bronchitis  is a very contagious  poultry disease  that is spread by air, feed bags, infected dead birds, infected houses, and rodents. So therefore, farmers are advised to keep tab on their chickens for any sudden disease like this that can ruin multi-million dollars of investment.  What is poultry  disease?  Any condition that results in deviation from normal function. That’s simp...

 Do you have a passion for poultry farming and you are thinking of venturing into the profitable business? Do you need the detailed analysis on which is more profitable between broiler and layer? Are you really confused on whether to start rearing broiler or layer in your poultry farming If yes, I will succinctly outline the benefits, economic importance and disadvantage of rearing each of the said types of chickens and at the end you will end up choosing the one that seems more profitable to you. Prior to moving farther, it is ideal to appreciate the concept of the two classes of poultry birds; Broiler and Layer Chickens. Broilers are poultry birds that are usually reared purposely for meat production. They possess a strong gene, which makes them grow faster than the native layers. In fact, within a couple of weeks, broiler could grow big and reach heavy weights hence make it protrude out and crippled (unable to walk properly), this is as a result of its excessive weight ga...

The major ingredients in an ideal ration be it chick marsh, growers marsh or layers marsh are as follows:   COMPONENTS OF POULTRY FEED FORMULA Yellow maize: provides vitamin A and carbohydrate. White maize: provides carbohydrate. Rice bran: provides carbohydrate and acts as midlings. Wheat offals: provide carbohydrate and act as midlings. Guinea corn: provides carbohydrate Palm kernel cake: provides lipids, vitamin, proteins Coconut cake: provides lipids, vitamins, proteins. Bean meal:  provides proteins, carbohydrate, lipids. Groundnut cake: provides protein, lipids, vitamins. Pigeon pea: provides protein, lipids, vitamins. Bone meal: Provides minerals like calcium and phosphorus. Oyster shell and grot: Minerals like calcium and phosphorus. Blood meal: Provides protein, minerals like iron and copper. Cotton seed meal: Provides protein, carbohydrate, vitamins and lipids. Linseed meal: Provides protein, carbohydrate, vitamins and lipids. Fish meal: Provides proteins, l...

Cucumber farming is one venture that can actually surprise anyone who cares to go into it. While thousands of young men and women are busy pursuing higher degrees in education and hoping to get employed by one big firm or the other, those who saw the goldmine in cucumber farming are not giving any damn to that as their ventures are adequately taking good cares of them financially. If you still care to have things done differently instead of investing your hard earned money in some businesses that you don’t even know much about and which the profit potentials may look somehow obscured, then it would make a serious economic sense to consider venturing into cucumber farming. How Big Is Cucumber Farming In Nigeria The good thing about this wonderful vegetable is that it is consumed worldwide and the demands of it is very high which knocks off the the ideas of whether you would be able to sell it. Go ahead and give cucumber farming a trial and see for yourself that you has be...

What exactly are the economic benefits of yam production in Nigeria? Yam farming is obviously one of the most rewarding farm businesses in Africa for many good reasons. Yam is one of the most popular food staple in most African countries and beyond. It is prepared in our kitchens in many forms – pounded yam, porridge, friend yam, yam with vegetables – mention just a few. Without yam in the market, millions of African families may starve. Apart from feeding our stomach, yam has other nutritional and health benefits. Yams’ complex carbohydrates and fiber slows the rate at which sugars are released and absorbed into the bloodstream. In addition, because they’re rich in fiber, yams fill you up without filling out your hips and waistline. Yams are also a good source of manganese, a trace mineral that helps with carbohydrate metabolism and is a co factor in a number of enzymes important in energy production and antioxidant defenses. That’s how Mother Nature works; when She brings fo...