Though over 70% of Nigeria’s 923,768 square kilometres land mass is arable and suitable for Agricultural, the nation is a net importer of food products.
In an attempt to tackle the problems facing the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria, Government put in place the National Agricultural Policy, which was jointly formulated by the national stakeholders and International Development Partners and approved by the Federal Government in 2002. Specifically, the National Agricultural Policy assigns supportive roles to the government, while investments in the sector are left to the private sector initiative and in order to encourage investment in the poultry sub-sector, Government approved ban on the importation frozen poultry products and gave other incentives to stimulate investment.
Nigeria, with a population of about 165 million is grossly underprovided with the essential food component, which is protein. For example, data from the FOS, CBN, and FAO indicate that from cattle, less than 2kg of beef is available to an average Nigerian per year and just mere 4kg of eggs per annum is available to each Nigerian.
In fact, milk production has been nose diving or at best has remained constant since 1994.This scenario is compounded more so when the volume of egg supply is very low, being 10.56g per person per day as compared with the usual recommendation that an egg should be consumed by an adult per day. This recommendation would imply a crate of 30 eggs per month. This story also holds for other meat products including, chicken.
The livestock sub-sector is an important component of the Nigerian Agricultural Economy. Its importance derives from the fact that it is one of the key contributors to the national economy. For example, using the 1984 factor based data, the sub-sector contributed on an annual basis, a little over 5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) between 1996 and year 2000.
Poultry farming in Nigeria is as old as history can remember spanning from a period of hunting and gather to that of subsistence backyard poultry farming in order to meet the protein requirements of the family.
In Nigeria poultry production can be divided into three main sections name small, medium and large-scale production with 25% being provided by commercial farms, 15% semi- commercial and 60% from backyard.
The two major events that have been recorded in the industry has been the ban on the importation of frozen poultry product which was introduced in 2003 and deepen the market for poultry product in Nigeria and the Avian Influenza of 2007 which affected the industry on a negative note.
The ban according to on the importation of frozen chicken into Nigeria has not only created jobs in the poultry industry but encouraged investments in poultry production.
This scenario is compounded more so when the volume of egg supply is very low, being 10.56g per person per day as compared with the usual recommendation that an egg should be consumed by an adult per day. This recommendation would imply a crate of 30 eggs per month. This story also holds for other meat products including, chicken.
To ameliorate this problem of low-level of protein intake, there is the need for concerted effort, among the various stakeholders to bring about the massive production of protein based food items at competitive costs so that they would be affordable to the general masses. Aside from the other necessary economic reforms, massive investment poultry farming is one way of resolving the problem.
There are few, if any social or religious stigmas attached to the use of poultry meat and egg in human diet. Hence the demand is high for live birds and eggs either for consumption or as gifts in the time of festivities such as Christmas, New Year, Easter, id el-fitri etc. Restaurants, hotels and super markets in Nigeria Including Kogi area are noted for fast food business that involve the sale of products like chicken, burger, egg bonze among others.
Besides, fowl meat and egg has a good potential export driven nature worldwide .Other market will come from use of poultry products(egg) in manufacture of vaccine, emulsion paint, leather tanning, drugs.etc
The availability of market for poultry products in Nigeria-egg in this case-cannot be over emphasized. The market is there and waiting.
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