Yesuph Dessalegn Shiferaw, Wordofa Muluken Gezahegn, Tefera Tesfaye Lemma
Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Extension, College of Agricultural Science, Wachemo University, P.O. Box 667, Hossana, Ethiopia.
Institutions, Innovation Systems, and Economic Development, Haramaya University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
Heliyon. 2024 Aug 28;10(17):e37006. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e37006. eCollection 2024 Sep 15.
This study aimed to analyze farmers' opinions, its role to household welfare, and the factors that influence the likelihood and intensity of exotic poultry adoption among rural chicken producers. To attain this, 155 households were targeted for interview. To this end, a multistage sampling procedure was administered to select households. Accordingly, quantitative data was backed by the qualitative data so as to bolster its credibility. Thus, the qualitative data was obtained through focus group discussions and key informant interviews. The result revealed that for enhanced market demand of chickens and egg production capacity among other allied factors farmers were interested with its production though exposure to disease and predators, absence of rural vaccination services, and the need for more care were also identified as challenges of production. Furthermore, exotic poultry producers' get advantage over their non-exotic poultry producers as a result of the sale of eggs and a live chicken. The producers improved their diets notably for egg and chicken meat. This also implies that exotic poultry producers were better at food diversification than their counter part using the days recall method. The model output, on the other hand, showed that household size, farming experience, farm size, sex, off/non-farm income, livestock holding, distance to market, and access to credit service were all statistically significant at 1 %. The study suggests that focusing on key factors influencing the adoption and use of exotic poultry will help maintain and increase their adoption rates.
本研究旨在分析农民的看法、其对家庭福利的作用，以及影响农村养鸡户采用外来家禽的可能性和强度的因素。为实现这一目标，选定了155户家庭进行访谈。为此，采用了多阶段抽样程序来选择家庭。相应地，定量数据得到定性数据的支持，以增强其可信度。因此，定性数据是通过焦点小组讨论和关键 informant 访谈获得的。结果显示，由于鸡肉市场需求增加和产蛋能力等相关因素，农民对其生产感兴趣，不过接触疾病和捕食者、农村缺乏疫苗接种服务以及需要更多照料也被确定为生产面临的挑战。此外，外来家禽养殖户因出售鸡蛋和活鸡而比非外来家禽养殖户更具优势。养殖户显著改善了他们的饮食，特别是鸡蛋和鸡肉。这也意味着，使用日回忆法，外来家禽养殖户在食物多样化方面比其同行做得更好。另一方面，模型输出显示，家庭规模、养殖经验、农场规模、性别、非农业收入、牲畜存栏量、到市场的距离以及获得信贷服务的机会在1%的水平上均具有统计学意义。该研究表明，关注影响外来家禽采用和使用的关键因素将有助于维持和提高其采用率。
