Abstract
Poultry farming is integral part of agriculture in Nepal. The objective of this research was to analyze the prevailing production constraints, characterization of poultry farming and its economic analysis using questionnaire-based survey and on-site investigation. 180 farms were selected from 3 major districts. Garrett’s ranking technique was used to analyze the constraints. Highly significant difference (P<0.01) in size of poultry farm was found. We found significant difference in feeding, housing and drinking system for the chicken. Un-organized chicken marketing channel was observed in the study area. High chicks’ mortality, wastage of feed, insecure vaccination and frequent drop in egg production were characteristic of laying hens. Newcastle disease and Chronic Respiratory Disease were acknowledged as the biggest constraint of chicken production. Government and concerned agencies need to take active part for the extension service to strengthen the health of chicken and organized marketing channel is essential for selling of poultry products which can improve the profit to the farmers.Int. J. Appl. Sci. Biotechnol. Vol 5(2): 222-226
Highlights
Poultry products like egg and poultry meat has been recognized as the fastest way to fulfill protein supply to human in shortest run
Major focus was one of the major agricultural practices in Nepal, it given for Newcastle Disease (ND) and Chronic Respiratory Disease (CRD) vaccination as these two diseases has major constraints that lower the optimum productivity were most prevalent in the study area
Technical difference was observed between the farmers and within knowledge of the housing system, disease control and different study area about the methods of treating ND and husbandry in general is lacking in poultry farming farmers
Summary
Poultry products like egg and poultry meat has been recognized as the fastest way to fulfill protein supply to human in shortest run. FAO has recommended the average intake of protein by an individual should be around 65 gm per day of which more than 50% should be from the animal source (FAO, 2009). Poultry industry has been increasing rapidly with well-equipped housing system in most of the developed countries. Least developing countries has many marginal poultry farmers with small scale of farming as their business for livelihood (Alders and Pym 2009). Data indicate that many poultry farming in the world follow the conventional method of rearing the poultry in developing countries (Gueye, 2009; Sonaiya and Swan, 2009). The farmers face the problem of poor production and reproduction performance, disease and mortality (Conroy et al, 2005)
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