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Poultry Waste Management Techniques in Urban Agriculture and its Implications: A Case of Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria
Vide Adedayo
Corresponding Author: Vide Adedayo
Submitted: March 23, 2012
Accepted: April 30, 2012
Published: July 15, 2012 |
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This study examines the existing poultry waste management and utilization technique in urban
vegetable farms. It analyses the implications of the management pattern on yield and revenue and further
determines the socio-economic differentials of farmers on management pattern. Socio-economic survey was
carried out to determine relationship between socio economic characteristics of farmers and poultry waste
management while field experiments and estimations were done to determine poultry waste production input
and crop yield. The result revealed that poultry waste is poorly collected, packaged and transported. Proper
knowledge on treatment is lacking due to lack of skill, space, time together with paucity of capital. Availability
and cost of synthetic fertilizer among other factors determine poultry waste utilization. Exotic vegetable
requires more poultry waste than indigenous ones and soil characteristics play strong role in influencing poultry
waste input and yield of vegetable crops. At p>0.05, there is significant difference between poultry waste
utilization, crop yield and revenue in the study area.
Key words: Management technique , poultry waste, urban agriculture , utilization, , ,
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Vide Adedayo, . Poultry Waste Management Techniques in Urban Agriculture and its Implications: A Case of Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria. Asian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, (4): 258-263.
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ISSN (Online): 2041-3890
ISSN (Print): 2041-3882 |
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