COSTS AND RETURNS IN ALTERNATIVE POULTRY EGG PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN TWO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF OGUN STATE OF NIGERIA

Abstract

Costs and returns involved in the intensive and semi-intensive management systems of poultry egg production were examined in Ijebu-Ode and Odogbolu Local Government Areas of Ogun State in Nigeria with a view identifying the more profitable of the two systems. The free systems. Data obtained through structured questionnaires from the to feed and is suitable where there are no respondents who were selected through the simple random sampling procedure. Descriptive and Budgetary techniques were employed to analyse the data. Results from the analysis revealed that intensive poultry management systems are more profitable than semi-intensive as indicated by the Benefit-Cost ratio estimated at 2.2:1 and 2.0:1two systems respectively. Further analysis revealed that the majority (50%) of farmers under the Intensive system of management undertook egg production enterprise only against none under the semi-intensive management system. Egg production averaged 132 egg\ bird and 68 eggs/bird respectively for a semi-intensive system. It was concluded that poultry egg production under an intensive management system needs to be encouraged under the present economy in the country. This could be effected by providing the right economic policies aimed at reducing the cost of livestock feeds and day old chicks.