Preservation Methods and Marketing Channels of Poultry Meat in Zing Local Government Area, Taraba State

¹NYAMEH, J., ²ANITA, D., ²WACHAP, E.D., ²MICHAEL, C. K. AND ³ALABI, J.

¹Department of Animal Production Technology, College of Agriculture, Jalingo, Taraba State.

²Department of Home and Rural Economics, College of Agriculture, Jalingo, Taraba State.

³Department of Animal Science Federal University Kashere, Gombe State.

E-mail: juliusnyameh@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

The study attempts to assess the preservation methods and marketing channels of poultry meat in Zing Local Government Area of Taraba State, where eight wards were randomly selected with 10 households selected from each ward. A total of 80 structured questionnaires were administered in all the selected households through random sampling techniques. The results shows that majority of the respondents are within the youthful ages (38.75% and 36.25%) respectively. Most of the respondents are males (61.25%) and most of them (48.75%) are married. The result shows that majority of them (48.75%) were secondary school leavers and most of them (47.50%) are applicants. Majority of them preserved their meat through frying (22.50%). The overall marketing channels are market place (33.75%) and the cooperative groups mostly (68.75%) sell their meat through credit and contact supply is mostly supplied to the restaurants (52.50%). It was concluded that more methods of preserving and marketing poultry meat should be explore to avert the issue of delay in selling the chickens when they have reached the market period which may increase the cost of producing the meat.