Abstract
The increasing awareness of the benefits of more nutritious, healthier and safer food products by consumers plays a vital role in the recent changes experienced in the food production chain, and meat products are no exception to this. The study investigated consumption pattern of meat in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria. Primary data for the study were obtained from 120 respondents with the use of structured questionnaire analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. According to the study, chicken, turkey and beef with percentage frequencies 96.7%, 81.7% and 76.8% respectively were the most consumed meat types, while quail, rabbit and guinea fowl with percentage frequencies 6.7%, 7.5% and 12.5% respectively were the least consumed meat types. Also, income of the respondent with t-value 41.08 and a positively signed coefficient at 1% level of significance was found to have a direct effect on the monthly expenditure on preferred meat type. The study recommend there should be awareness on the nutritional benefits of consuming meats of low saturated fats and calorie contents such as rabbit, quail and guinea fowl and also to teach them how to raise these animals domestically.
Highlights
The increasing awareness of the benefits of more nutritious, healthier and safer food products by consumers plays a vital role in the recent changes experienced in the food production chain, and meat products are no exception to this
This study seeks to investigate consumption pattern of meat and to determine the factors influencing respondents’ monthly expenditure on meat in the study area with a view to creating more awareness on domestication and consumption of meats types that are low in saturated fats and calorie contents but high in fatty acids and other essential nutrients
Ordinary least square (OLS) is more commonly named linear regression.In the case of a model with p explanatory variables, the OLS regression model writes: Y = β0 + Σj=1..p βjXj + ε where Y is the dependent variable, β0, is the intercept of the model, X j corresponds to the jth explanatory variable of the model (j= 1 to p), and ε is the random error with expectation 0 and variance σ2.In the case where there are n observations, the estimation of the predicted value of the dependent variable Y for the ith observation is given by: MATERIALS AND METHODS
Summary
The increasing awareness of the benefits of more nutritious, healthier and safer food products by consumers plays a vital role in the recent changes experienced in the food production chain, and meat products are no exception to this. The study investigated consumption pattern of meat in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria. The study recommend there should be awareness on the nutritional benefits of consuming meats of low saturated fats and calorie contents such as rabbit, quail and guinea fowl and to teach them how to raise these animals domestically. This study seeks to investigate consumption pattern of meat and to determine the factors influencing respondents’ monthly expenditure on meat in the study area with a view to creating more awareness on domestication and consumption of meats types that are low in saturated fats and calorie contents but high in fatty acids and other essential nutrients. The household head in each of the selected households was interviewed This makes a total of one hundred and twenty (120) respondents. It is an area of mixed culture with an appreciable standard of living and the most populous local government in the city as at the 2006 census.The majority of the people are members of the Yoruba ethnic group and Yam, cassava, maize, and tobacco are some of the notable agricultural products of the region
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