Poultry Farming Is Scaling Up Production in Tanzania. A Case of Backyard Poultry Farming in Dodoma Urban
Keywords:
Poultry, farming, backyard, policy, carrying capacity, vaccination, extension service, resource utilizationAbstract
In recent years, Tanzania has been witnessing the mushrooming of poultry farming. This study embarked on assessing the effectiveness of backyard poultry farming in scaling up poultry production capacity in Dodoma urban. A sample of 50 households was selected using cluster and simple random sampling from the population of 57 households. The deductive research approach was employed, whereby the author picked a questionnaire as a tool through which primary and quantitative data were collected. Data were analyzed using SPSS. The results show that the majority, 82% of households doing backyard poultry farming, rely on subsistence poultry farming. It can be concluded that the effectiveness of backyard poultry farming in scaling up production has not been well addressed due to the presence of limited space as the number of chickens exceeds shelter carrying capacity, limited utilization of extension services hindering programs like treatment of diseases, feeding for grower and layer chickens, and even shelter designing. It is recommended that there should be a specially designed land zone for poultry farming, the Local Government Authority should put in place a poultry farming policy, which would drive and reinforce the transformation from subsistence to commercial-based poultry farming. The Local Government Authority is to assist poultry farmers in the study area with friendly land tenure, meanwhile making it easier for farmers to access both financial and non-financial services.
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