The first move of the farm manager is to establish the goals and objectives of the business. Whoever owns the business sets the goals and objectives. If it is a business that is jointly owned, the owners set the goals and objectives. Without goals there is no way to measure the results of management decisions … Continue reading The steps for Setting of Business Objectives →

Problem of Livestock Marketing And How to Promote Livestock – Unfortunately the important role expected to be played by livestock marketing is not being played because of the following interrelated problems: Problem of Livestock Marketing a. Poor Mode of Transport and Communication Network: The livestock producers, majority of whom lives and farm in the rural … Continue reading Problem of Livestock Marketing And How to Promote Livestock. →

Honey is the natural sweet substance, produced by honeybees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants, or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in honeycombs to ripen … Continue reading Honey Bee farming Business Process and Profit. →

If you have already made up your mind about starting your own business in Nigeria, then do not consider only oil industry to earn big money. You can also do a very profitable livestock farming business in Nigeria. In recent years, livestock farming is booming and the future of this economic sector is very bright. … Continue reading Prospects of Animal production in Nigeria →

NTRODUCTION Animal production embraces all disciplines in the biological and physical sciences that influences animals’ life. It also refers to the total store of knowledge with regards to feeding, breeding, general management, marketing and processing of and their products. Animal agriculture utilize biological processes to produce animal products useful to human and the success of … Continue reading ROLE OF LIVESTOCK IN NATIONAL ECONOMY →

Agricultural extension services have greatly contributed immensely to livestock production and propagation with respect to cattle production in Nigeria. This has been achieved through the combination of various methods, strategies as well as a number of useful findings from research stations being communicated to livestock farmers in a bid to achieve an overall growth in … Continue reading CONTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION TO CATTLE PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA →

Pig farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock , and is a branch of animal husbandry . Pigs are farmed principally for food (e.g. pork , bacon , gammon) or sometimes skinned . Pigs are amenable to many different styles of farming: intensive commercial units , commercial free range enterprises, or … Continue reading PIG PRODUCTION →

The quality, capability and performance of farmers in agriculture are fundamental indicators of the level of the agricultural sector’s efficiency, productivity, development and sustainability. But still, the problems causing unsustainability cannot be looked out. PROBLEMS CAUSING INSUSTAINABILITIES IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (a) Majority of farmers are members of the farmers’ unions. They want more TV and … Continue reading Sustainable Agricultural Development Through Extension Education →

Information needs., institutions and opportunities Changing livestock production through system and emerging constraints The demand of information of livestock production is growing, both in the sense of demands expressed by the producers themselves, and in the more general sense of growing potential for increasing production through the delivery of information. Three linked factors are at … Continue reading Improving livestock production through extension →

It has been clinically proved that man requires balanced diet in order to survive. One of the essential requirements for this balanced diet is protein, which is supplied by meat. Apart from red meat - beef etc., the other class of meat is that of birds. Within this family of birds, you have broilers, layers, … Continue reading POULTRY FARMING PRODUCTION →