Resources and infrastructure in poultry farming in Matanao, Davao del Sur

Abstract

The main focus of the study was to determine the resources and infrastructure in poultry farming. The study was conducted with 15 registered poultry farming in Matanao, Davao del Sur. The result disclosed that majority of the respondents aged 41-60 years old, males, married. The result implied that in the poultry production type, it is evident that all 15 respondents are engaged in broilers/meat production and the number of years in poultry farming, the distribution is notable for its concentration in the 8 to 10 years range, with half of the respondents falling within this category. The resources and infrastructure of the poultry farming has no significant difference between the business profile in terms of a number of farmer, thus the null hypothesis was accepted. The substantial majority (86%) rely on loans, and a smaller portion (13%) access credit through cooperatives and 93.3% of respondents reporting this as their primary source of financial support. In terms of the types of feeds used, the data indicate that all respondent (100%) rely on commercially feeds and (100%) relies on water for their poultry farming operations and the duration of water testing, all respondents, again represented by a frequency of 15 and a percentage of 100%, conducted tests for a fixed period of 1 hour only and regarding the available mode of transport, it is noteworthy that all respondents, exclusively rely on open trucks for poultry transportation.