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Item Are small-scale poultry farmers aware of aflatoxin contaminants in feed in oyo state, nigeria?(2022) Adepoju, A.; Obi, U.; Jerumeh, E.Aflatoxins, feed contaminants formed by certain moulds occur naturally as feed and food impurities and have toxic consequences on both animals and humans. Earlier studies on aflatoxins in Nigeria did not consider small-scale poultry farmers’ awareness of feed contamination. Thus, this study examined the level of awareness of aflatoxins in poultry feed and its determinants. Descriptive Statistics and the Logistic Regression Model were the analytical tools employed to analyse data collected from field survey in 2019. One-third of the farmers were aware of aflatoxins in feed which depicts that the level of awareness of aflatoxin in feed by the poultry farmers in the study area is low. Years of education, primary occupation, farm-scale, years of farming experience, access to information from research institutions, and membership in cooperative societies were among the key determinants of the awareness of aflatoxin in feed by the farmers. Efforts should be geared towards increasing the level of awareness of the farmers on the highly toxic contaminant even when fed to poultry at non-fatal levels. Agricultural information highlighting the detrimental consequences of aflatoxin on the health and productivity of poultry and how to minimize aflatoxin contamination in feed should be made more accessible to all farmers.Item Resource use efficiency in commercial poultry production in Oyo State, Nigeria(Tropical animal production investigations, 2015) Musa, R.A.; Adenegan, K. O.Poultry is a major livestock subsector which offers the least expensive way of filling the protein gap in human nutrition. However, low productivity in poultry subsector of livestock industry and inadequate knowledge on efficiency of resource allocation have scared many interested farmers from investing fully in the enterprise. The study ascertained the determinants of poultry productivity and allocative efficiency of each of the major resource inputs in commercial poultry production in Oyo State. Primary data were collected using well structured questionnaires. A multistage sampling technique was used to sample 90 poultry farmers to represent the commercial poultry farmers in the study area. Data collected were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and production function model. The result showed 'that the poultry farmers in the study area were educated and quite experienced in poultry farming with an average of 8years. The number of birds raised, labour, feed and drugs/vaccines were found to be the most significant inputs in poultry production and thus, require special attention. Poultry production in the study area was found in stage two of production surface as indicated by Returns to Scale (RTS) of 0.798. The result further showed that flock size, labour, feed and drugs/vaccines had efficiency indices of 0.046, 0.960, 0.00095 and 0.587 respectively implying that these inputs were inefficiently allocated and utilized except labour that was close to the economic optimum. It is therefore recommended that there should be policies aimed at educating poultry farmers in the study area on efficient resource management techniques most importantly efficient administration of feeds and drugs/vaccines, adequate stocking density of flock and efficient management practices.