POULTRY FARMING: A PANACEA FOR CURBING UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AMONG YOUTH IN NIGERIA

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Abstract In Nigeria, demand for animal protein source and the unemployment rate are increasing yearly because of high increase in population. In order to meet up with these increases more youth involvement in poultry rearing is needed. Poultry rearing is one of the most lucrative business ideas today, as it does not require huge capital to start, easier to rear and less laborious to cater-for. Poultry rearing provides various job opportunities which include: selling of birds and their products, selling of point of lay and marketing of poultry feed. but still there are great challenges of income fluctuation and seasonality, poor infrastructures and poor mindset of youth participation within the sector. It is therefore, recommends various government agencies, banks, private sectors, civil society, rural co-operative societies, youth agencies in Nigeria with the assistance of various international donor agencies can collaborate and play more role of giving loans, grants and adequate extension services to ensure that youth empowerment is achieved within an eco-friendly environment through profitable poultry production. Government as well as parents should use poultry production business to pursue youth empowerment. The effort would drastically reduce the level of the prevalent unemployment rate among the youth in the Nigeria.

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