Contribution of local chicken production towards improving peoples wellbeing: A Case of Peri-Urban areas of Kinondoni District, Tanzania
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2018-02-23
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Several studies have been conducted on characterization of local chicken production systems in
some places of Tanzania, yet clear information is limited regarding to its contribution towards
improving peoples wellbeing particularly its socio-economic importance in the country. This study
therefore accessed the socio- economic importance of local chickens’ production in peri-urban
areas of Kinondoni District, Dar es salaam-Tanzania. A cross sectional research design was
employed. The study was conducted in peri-urban areas of Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam
Region involving three peripheral wards namely: Kibamba, Kwembe and Mabwepande, between
September and October 2014. Both purposive and random sampling was used. Purposive
sampling was used in selecting six streets from which local chickens were kept and random
sampling was used in selecting 90 local chicken keepers (15 local chicken keepers per street) from
the list provided by livestock extension officer. Data were collected using a household
questionnaire survey, Focus Group Discussion (FGDs) and Key Informant interview (KI) methods.
Quantitative and qualitative data were analysed using respective methods of data analysis (SPSS).The study findings found that, the local chicken contributes to peri-urban household’s
wellbeing as 92.2% of all the respondents spent some amounts of local chicken earnings to buy
food. This shows that local chicken keeping contributes to improving food security at the
households of the local chicken keepers.Some households used local chicken for gift giving, rituals
and detection of time. Education level, initial capital, experience of local chicken keeping, rearing
systems, accessibility to extension services and constraints were significantly influencing
production of the local chicken (p<0.05). The researchers conclude that local chicken production
improves socio-economies of peri-urban households of Kinondoni District. The study recommends
that various stakeholders including the local governments should put more emphasis on promoting
local chicken production as it contributes to the smallholder household’s socio-economies.
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Local chicken, Peri-urban, Socio-economies, Kinondoni District