PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF DUCK FARMING

 

ABSTRACT

 

This design work was carried out in Ovia North West Local Government Area of edo state to examine the problems of duck husbandry within the area. 5o questionnaires were distributed among growers in the original government but there response where only anatomized using simple frequence and probabilities. From the analysis it was revealed that 30 the growers attributed the problem of duck husbandry to complaint condition which 80 linked some other problems. The result further revealed that 80 of the repliers attribute the non acceptance of duck meat of superstitions belief another 8 of the repliers further stated that there’s no ready request for ducks and ducks raised are reared for family consumption, it was discovered that duck have high resistance to common flesh conditions and their eggs are bigger in size than that of funk and if the request is created for ducks eggs and meat duck husbandry will come a gold mine.

 

TABLE OF CONTENT

 

Abstract

 

Table of content

 

Chapter One

 

Preface

 

Background of study

 

Statement of the problem

 

Purpose of the study

 

exploration question

 

thesis

 

Compass of the study

 

Significance of the study

 

Limitation

 

Chapter Two

 

Literature Review

 

Development of the flesh assiduity

 

Duck husbandry

 

Types of duck

 

Benefit of duck husbandry

 

Operation

 

Combining duck keeping with rice civilization

 

Vombining duck with fish culture

 

Chapter Three

 

Accoutrements and system

 

Population of study

 

Sample and sample procedure

 

Instrumentation

 

Balidity and trustability of instrument

 

Administration of instrument

 

System of data analysis

 

Chapter Four

 

Discussion of results

 

Test of thesis

 

Conclusion

 

Thesis

 

Coroculation

 

Suppositions

 

Conclusions

 

Chapter Five

 

Conclusion and Recommendations

 

Reference

 

Questionnaires

 

Chapter One

 

Preface

 

Preface

 

Ducks are tough creatures and good scavengers. They’re easier and cheaper to keep than cravens. This makes duck keeping for the product of eggs and meat an seductive enterprise about 700 million ducks are kept around the world, the maturity of these further than 500million are set up in Asia. Despite this uneven distribution, it’s clearly also possible to raise ducks in corridor of the worlds, including Africa and Latin America. Ducks can be reared for eggs and meat, for own use or for trade. Other products from ducks which can also be vended include down feathers and reprovisioned livers. There are numerous parallels between funk and duck parenting. The most egregious parallels are set up in the type of the products for which these forms of flesh we kept duck, like funk are good directors of eggs and meat.

 

Background Of The Study

 

Ducks still have several advantages over other flesh species, in particular their complaint forbearance. They’re hardly, excellent recon and easy to hard, particularly in washes where they naturally tend to flock together. Ducks are fairly easy to raise and generally need lower care than cravens.

 

This study seeks to determine the problems and prospects of duck parenting in Ovia North East Local Government Area.

 

Statement Of The Problem

 

The study will deal with queries as enumerated below

 

Is duck parenting popular in this position?

 

Is duck meat popular among people?

 

c. Why is duck meat not respectable to some people

 

d. What chance of the people don’t want duck meat?

 

Break can duck meat parenting be bettered in this position?

 

What’s the donation of duck meat to the flesh assiduity in Nigeria?

 

Purpose Of The Study

 

This exploration was proposed on the background of the following solicitations;

 

To ascertain the position of adequacy

 

To determine the proficiency of duck meat parenting/ husbandry

 

To unveil the reasons for position of adequacy of duck meat

 

To propose ways to enhance duck meat product

 

To encourage further product of duck meat.

 

Exploration Question

 

This study will concentrate on the following queries relating to problems and prospects of duck husbandry in Ovia North West original Government area of Edo state

 

a. What are the problems of duck husbandry in Ovia North West Local Government Area?

 

b. How important as these problems hampered the position of duck productivity?

 

c. What are the sweats made by the non government agencies in diving these problems

 

What’s the donation of duck husbandry to the flesh assiduity?

 

e. What are the prospects in duck husbandry?

 

f. How can duck husbandry be bettered?

 

Thesis

 

This exploration study was accepted with the following hypotheticals regarding the problems and prospects of duck husbandry in Ovia North West Local Government area of Edo State.

 

HO the dirty nature of ducks has no effect on their adequacy

 

H1 the dirty nature of duck has effect on their adequacy

 

HO high cost of feed, component has no effect on duck product

 

H1 high cost of feed component has effect on duck product

 

H0 the popular expansive system of duck parenting has no effect on productivity

 

H1 the popular expansive system duck parenting has effect on productivity

 

Compass Of The Study

 

This exploration was grounded on questionnaire approach involving growers and pastoral residers in Ovia North West Local Government Area of Edo state. They were made to answer questions presented in these questionnaires. Their opinion were studied and anatomized scientifically with a view to giving acceptable sapience into the problems and prospect of duck husbandry in Ovia North West Local Government Area.

 

Significance Of The Study

 

This study will give acceptable sapience and help in the following ways

 

It’ll give a background knowledge of duck husbandry

 

It’ll identity some problems affecting duck husbandry in Ovia North West Local Government Area

 

It’ll propose result to these problems

 

d. It seems to recommend to the people, the benefits, the benefits of duck husbandry.

 

It’ll reveal the prospects in duck husbandry, thereby encouraging prospective growers.

 

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