ABSTRACT

Abstract

Achieving profitability in production is a great challenge facing chicken producers and is constrained by inefficiency and other challenges facing the chicken production industry. Technical efficiency in chicken was a strategy in mitigating the profitability problem. The study was based on technical efficiency of input on output and profitability of chicken production in Kaduna state, Nigeria. A cross sectional survey was adopted using questionnaires. Farm records were used and interview administered on a sample of 166 chicken producers in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The result revealed that profitability existed in chicken production in the study area, especially in layer production. The result further revealed that the mean of technical efficiencies in chicken production was 0.64 for pullet production, 0.73 for layer and 0.81 for the broiler production which means inefficiencies existed in chicken production in the study area.

Keywords: technical efficiency, profitability, layer, broiler and pullet chicken production.