A Look At Nigeria's Poultry Industry

[Music] hello and welcome to community reports and channels television and Victoria you do poultry famine in Niger Accords an average of twenty five percent of the agricultural domestic product of the country's economy now the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO has put Nigeria as the number one egg producing nation in Africa recording an average annual growth of four percent between 2000 and 2012 when outputs rich 640,000 tones and with seven hundred and eight thousand metric tones of broiler chickens Nigeria ranks fourth in production outside South Africa and some countries in North Africa on community reports this week we look at a group of people who have taken poultry farming and notch higher welcome to the show [Music] this cages will remember it is one of the earliest forms of housing system for hens particularly in rural areas where the chickens leave freely pecking at anything that looks like food to them now the end of the day they go home to roast [Music] over the years in Nigeria raising chickens they have taken different forms Boston people out of their passion or the need to improve the social economic status with little or no training in poultry farming engage in raising backyard chickens one of such people is mrs. felucca como la fille [Applause] mrs. felucca como la fête tells us how she started and how it became a business for her she also explains the process of raising chickens the pottery farming is born out of passion started three years ago that day I was going out and I saw a bike man Aki named four weeks old Cockrum so I decided to buy intimates so I bought 20 pieces I brought them the way demand directed me to lost most them I continued so I discovered that at the end of this month I lost only two out of twenty so I now ask my husband because it was during fasting the police could do a Miss Saudis a chicken in your office said no problem so it took the chicken down to his office get into the office if I the chicken was not enough yourself she now called me and asked me that if he should try to invest in this thing will I be able to do it I said no problem so that has been the journey so far presently I have 500 layers that are laying and those were you are saying to D they owed their layers which portray business you don't have any spare time able to go out she's a problem you miss a lot of this but at least at the end of it you have something you have something to lose Weston while the likes of mrs. Camilla are doing their bit to contribute to the production of animal protein at a small scale others have taken it a notch higher like this mechanized large-scale poultry farm [Music] for this farm manager safety of everyone that comes into the famine the poultry farm itself is very important starting out from the millions section where the chicken feed is produced is what we produce our finished feed that we give to the birds and then here we have the aroma the different raw materials used for food production now you observe the meal basically we're out there and you have some other materials yeah then the Nasri section at this poultry farm is all about slayer chickens 360 are they were brought in here from the old right then we'll put them here they're going to be here from day one about the nine ten or eleven weeks for advanced patented me Lane section maximum the system is you guys want to call them front of flip this is the kid rubber discharging the feet so as it's moving down is inside until gradually this federal gun is going to be reloaded from this time when it's gas then are automatically the few companies are are the logics and when is going down again is going to start them down so this is part of the drinking system from the Ohio Bank the water comes in here I'm from this wave is topical to prevent the water from spilling okay so what is know what I mean if the stop is not working what I was spilled over so from here it goes into the nipple pipes where do you boys can have access to the nipples inside one of the penthouses the chickens are grown till they're able to lay eggs yeah mm that is very static man whatever feed each other well we expanded with Manuel passionately Manuel Fiji's up to 2005 Louis now started a film it ultimately different so we started breaking down the militia demon waffle trolley that automated facilities you can see that this is the past which is fully automated this has a relatively young bet this one they are green almost 90 percent ago so right now we have a deep this particular tank and is the hospital a secure twenty-five thousand last one two three four five years so you have the manual bed below every TS we are did drop in the pieces work okay this is the actual to the egg that all the earth work with particular point we are the athletes so you don't need to be attended only to move around to be picking as asakadai the Audrina tonight percent reduction 35,000 the salt we are getting 20 2013 as a fatter than text from here every day that's all we are getting right now because of their age they are Syrian civilians that the nutrition is cooking the antidote we are Gnostic the only challenge we have had a superstar defeat it be very important all of an angular contact the density of vest is very high so what it will die you must give ventilation we found they are meant to allow air movement come on see how they are moving in see all the s in this level at the same time seal for me at the same time this is the crossbow videos add that Rosco here is all not brief shoddy dropped quietly [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we have 399,000 bits from time the birds are gotten from the hatchery to the farm time they are Stockton we make sure that the bio securities of health because if at any point in time the biosecurity protocols are breached we could have outbreaks then we talk about the water sanitation you have to make sure the better get some rate to in water we sanitize water regularly we make sure the Pens are very neat most times we make sure that the truck the tanks the water systems are washed at least once every week the feed will make sure that from the procession in the feed mill three times the feed is discharged in silos the feeds are handled properly and hasn't class possible even the silos else in fact that often all trying to reduce the disease mood once we notice you have Gilbert's the attendant bring them out of the cages and we let evaluate the health status of the birds sometimes equal Newcastle sometimes it could be a bacterial disease like maybe calabasa doses once you can evaluate if we believe that bird is not so contagious we can keep it in isolation pen for a while but it is something that you suspect that it is the beginning of an outbreak indirectly we have this bed cold so you walk us in what the donor is because of this system we move the money out every day at the far end of the pen and that's the bottom we pressed this panel but although there is terrible the other end of the thing so here they drop into a crossbow girl and doctors Camilla will take the manual drop honest and et / below this gospel how once you evacuate all the manual it if I drop the dress of the world [Music] indeed they're more poultry farmers who have huge investments in the industry with their farms in closed sheds and houses ventilated round-the-clock through fans and cool the poultry Association of manager estimates and in the early 1960s poultry farming grew from a modest production of about 700 thousand chickens to an estimated 14 million in 1980s as of the year 2013 commercial poultry production is estimated at about 800 million US dollars with a sector employing more than 14 million people while backyards or small-scale poultry farmers account for an estimated 85 million people involved in managing a total assets based of over 320 billion now as interest in as poultry farming may be is practitioners both the subsistence and commercial farmers contend with a number of challenges including the outbreak of bed flu and high cost production avian influenza is very diverse States you have very high mortality I have very significant drop in egg production it can wipe out the farms existence in weeks and once an outbreak is confirmed a new farm the family shut down by the government for at least a minimum of three years so we try to avoid such outbreaks we try to avoid such outbreaks for every product with webly field with produce most constituting 50 and 60% but this miss is what is could be locally grown is locally grown but it will interest you that doesn't move enough production of maize for use of filming us in Nigeria and the reason is this since 2012 davin importation of maize into the country because of inability to get enough sufficient maize for use I have the data through index Mundi that since 2012 every three hundred thousand metric tons of me that have been imported into the country but last year there was a challenge the challenge of foreign exchange nobody could import so because nobody could import has a lot of pressure on local production so the price forward from the bus sixty thousand IRA to 150,000 as I speak today they are of women made for 130 thousand 135 thousand and if 50% of your input cost as much as that the supposed to cost maybe one tote of that price they would cost of production vi0 material challenges market you know food challenge I don't know what that you are aware that for the post Abramoff Amazon radical we have you finally difficult to study are else and we need a lot of serious adblock studio statement is surely not a factor other one I think we possibly fact our obesity risk is very low right now the price of raw material is killing and there's no which a diplomat unreachable rather elaborate no fan can tell you that in mechanical engineer in short a lot of hands close down this year we will should be our best all player that are silly the river it cost the to hospital a pneumothorax what is this 59 year old man who doesn't want his identity revealed mirrors one of those poultry families who are finding it's so hard to stay afloat that's best we had about a minimum at any time what we have as we told is now just about roughly 40 right if you even ever are giving me money I want to go what I said oh good for instance you cannot continue like this depending on this there are many consumers depending on me and that's why some countries are nice system that you cannot be producing this big economy to the look of alternatives so that you can reduce cost of production and I just came across the government where they said the pro tip on testing cocoa beans is higher than 120 and this is a poopoo producing country so we need what experts farmers and people who are just interested one not actually involved in the business of side of it to come together and put ideas on the table the retailers are also not left house with goings-on in the poultry higher cells appear to be limited to festive seasons I many people you meet you know me - plastic hasta maana so if you put the plenty money for your marketing maybe say now you go guitar by yourself no money for Nigeria everybody do manage someday batteries someday by meet someday by go by someday by life another major issue facing local poultry families in Nigeria is the continued smuggling of banned frozen foods into the country the cost of - double try every honest what as much as they are trying thousand chicken is everywhere every we are almost of poor not allowed to be in the country how would the lightness by policy of Nigeria's maybe I even though some poultry farmers have taken steps father not just to raise the chicken but also engage in locally made frozen chicken services at various levels in different parts of the country while some centers dressed in over twelve thousand chickens per day it would seem that the disincentives away too many for majority of the people to buy them and I've said if the price of the locally grown chicken is imported chicken that was put into the country illegally if you see the period duty reasonably paid to theory would normally probably the price who match with the local price but this was assumed in when we are smuggled in Frederick LeMay does not earn any income from the importation and [Music] therefore the price is cheaper than locally even when people know that these products are on wholesome that they are dangerous to the other it will stay it or DC nobody right especially when the consider their pocket that's why public government can efforts that 20 local miss is expensive do tourism to maybe our borders are open to to smoking these asked a commodity to naturally obly to child all these purposes that is putting a little pressure on local economies the federal government can assist and as if farmers in granting zone one digit not the probable have been tried on that that is the given a percent interest low but the point is this the duty vehicle they can be relieved of duty for souls that are imported that will make locally grown base to produce competitively and when it's competitive definitely the consumers who buy it the wound our premium probably in the cost has been injected with a formality so when it's injected even when the food chain is broken it was not it was it electronic expert but now in case you have to maintain is flourish not dissipative school fresh fresh hmmm reddish hue middle couch chain typical assessment continues this much metal coaching coaching because we need to place freeze for you to blasts freeze - - taxi - - 30 - 35 degrees issues you can imagine that so it's good to be spoon at the start so you can guess what although with all this contending challenges this poetry fan of the least there is hope in the horizon when the cost of raw materials is more in the price of the ages you faster so I know that's a lot of money to be made in pootie it used to be a cash cow I have to be honest with you while you talk of a genuine business in and analysis abilities you know behind general business in Algeria but the last one of us is not deserving to be honest with you I am very positive about Nigeria the population is pleased a very very huge population is still very potential I believe and I'm very hopeful that my children will take over for me with the day-to-day running of the poultry farms some of them talk about the industry and a passionate manner and now for us on the program today thank you so much for watching if you missed any part of the show you can check it on our YouTube channel you can also send your comments to the social media handles shown on your screen until I see you again bye for now [Music]

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Length: 24min 52sec (1492 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 10 2019