Who will bring back chicken to the table for these people?

Oloyo, R. A. (2018) Who will bring back chicken to the table for these people? FPI Inaugural Lecture Series (4). The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ilaro, Nigeria. ISBN 978-978-964-757-6

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Abstract

The food protein plays a vital role in the physiological, biochemical, health, nutritional, and general wellbeing of man. Its inadequate supply, in quantity and in quality, results in deficiency symptoms characterized by wasting, poor brain development, kwashiorkor, marasmus, etc. in seriously undernourished children. Consequently, the paper expressed concern for the nutrition status of the ordinary, hustling and undernourished Nigerians whose per capita income is too low to afford high-quality animal protein foods including egg, fish, and meat in their diets. Furthermore, it decried the high cost of animal protein foods occasioned by the shortage in their production and supply in the country and the adverse effects on the health and general wellbeing of the vulnerable. Additionally, the review of the global strategies for bridging the protein foods demands and supply revealed that whereas the supply of animal protein foods is not a problem in the industrialized nations, the reverse is the case in the developing countries including Nigeria where livestock production is low. While aligning his research contributions with the global agenda for finding sustainable solutions to the animal protein foods supply deficit in the world, the lecturer’s research intervention for Nigeria anchored on four key strategies including: Search for indigenous plants with potentials for being protein sources for local communities; Use of Physic nut (Jatropha curcas) and Palm kernel meal as sources of protein hydrolysates (amino acids) in foods; Reduction of livestock production cost through the use of cheaper, locally available, and lesser-known feeding stuff in animals; and Optimizing utilization of cheaper alternative feeding stuffs in broiler chickens feeding through vitamin supplementation. The paper opined that intensive production of broilers, the meat-type chickens, remains the fastest route to bridging the animal protein foods supply shortage in the country, only if the production cost is reduced. Also, the reduction of feeding cost for broilers’ production can be achieved using cheaper and locally available crop wastes/residues as unconventional feed ingredients. However, farmers must ensure adequate nutrition, health, and wellbeing of the broiler chicken by including appropriate Vitamin/Mineral Premix in the ration formulated with unconventional feed ingredients. It concluded that only the strategy that brings about a reduction in the market price of broilers will successfully bring the chicken to the table for the poor, ordinary, and hustling Nigerians.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences
Depositing User:	Dr J. Soyemi
Date Deposited:	31 May 2020 16:29
Last Modified:	31 May 2020 16:29
URI:	http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/316

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