POULTRY FARMERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD CONVERSION OF POULTRY DROPPINGS TO BIOGAS IN IBADAN SOUTH-WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE

Ajanaku, A.O. and Olayemi, O.O.
Page No: 
1463-1465

Waste Material (Droppings) from Poultry Farm is a raw material of the Biogas Plant. Considering the importance of Poultry droppings as valuable resource rather than be an environmental pollutant help to evaluate the Poultry Farmers’ Perception toward conversion of Poultry Droppings to Biogas. Simple random approach was employed through questionnaire and interviews to collect information from 82 Poultry Farmers. Descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency counts, percentages, mean, Chi-square and PPMC were used in data analysis at 0.05 level of significance. Results of analysis revealed that majority (34.1%) of the respondents fell within the age range of 30 years to 39 years. Most of the respondents (69.5%) were married, (82.9%) of them were male, while (59.8%) had education up to tertiary level. Most of respondents’ perceived that conversion of Poultry droppings to biogas help to solve environmental pollution while 52.4% of the respondents considered lack of financial support as their major constraints in the study area. Chi-square analysis revealed that, among socio-economic characteristics of the respondents, marital status (x2= 45.133, p= 0.000), and Years of farming (x2=37.837, p=0.001) were significantly related to respondents’ perception toward conversion of Poulty droppings to biogas in the study area. The empirical findings revealed clearly that male respondents are more involved and their perception is high. It is therefore recommended that government should provide a particular site where dropping would be collected from farmer with certain amount of money given to farmer to avoid environmental pollution, also enlighten Poultry farmer both Method and result demonstration approach of the biogas process by extension agent.

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