Challenges of Small-Scale Broiler Production in Rural West Africa DOI Creative Commons
Benjamin Adjei‐Mensah, Cocou Claude Kpomasse, Essodina Talaki

et al.

IntechOpen eBooks, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 18, 2024

Small-scale broiler production in rural West Africa faces significant challenges that impact its sustainability and economic viability. The primary obstacles include limited market access, insufficient financial support, inadequate technical expertise equipment, high climatic variability. These issues are exacerbated by climate change, which threatens to increase average temperatures 2 6°C, further affecting production. environmental compounded feed costs, diseases, expensive day-old chicks, all of reduce productivity profitability. To address these challenges, it is crucial improve resilience through sustainable practices, better support. Breeding programs should focus on improving the genetic potential local breeds while maintaining their adaptation tropical climates. introduction high-performance hybrid broilers, though beneficial, requires careful management avoid like thermal stress. Financial constraints also hinder growth small-scale farms, limiting ability invest necessary inputs technologies. Innovative solutions use renewable energy sources improved ICTs can help overcome limitations. By addressing holistically, become more robust, contributing food security development region.

Language: Английский

Modern Technologies for Improving Broiler Production and Welfare: A Review DOI Creative Commons
Dóra Lili Brassó, István Komlósi,

Zsófia Várszegi

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Animals, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(4), P. 493 - 493

Published: Feb. 10, 2025

The increasing level of poultry meat production, the lack human workforce, and rapid development information technology have led to application precision livestock farming (PLF) systems in sector, as other sectors. This review aimed gather on function, applicability, advantages, limitations a wide range technologies applicable broiler production help farms researchers choosing right methods practice or creating basis for further development. Studies this were extracted from more than hundred peer-reviewed articles including mainly publications recognised journals conference proceedings. results showed that most tools are currently undergoing testing focus some parameters group which closely related. Information prevalence PLF is not available literature. accessible different purposes should be combined connected enable communication with each create complex, reliable, precise background farming. also facilitates management decisions treatment so-called “Big Data”.

Language: Английский

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Use of robotics in broiler production systems: a relationship between technology, environment and production DOI
Glauber da Rocha Balthazar, Robson Mateus Freitas Silveira, Iran José Oliveira da Silva

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Tropical Animal Health and Production, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 57(3)

Published: March 29, 2025

Language: Английский

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Challenges of Small-Scale Broiler Production in Rural West Africa DOI Creative Commons
Benjamin Adjei‐Mensah, Cocou Claude Kpomasse, Essodina Talaki

et al.

IntechOpen eBooks, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 18, 2024

Small-scale broiler production in rural West Africa faces significant challenges that impact its sustainability and economic viability. The primary obstacles include limited market access, insufficient financial support, inadequate technical expertise equipment, high climatic variability. These issues are exacerbated by climate change, which threatens to increase average temperatures 2 6°C, further affecting production. environmental compounded feed costs, diseases, expensive day-old chicks, all of reduce productivity profitability. To address these challenges, it is crucial improve resilience through sustainable practices, better support. Breeding programs should focus on improving the genetic potential local breeds while maintaining their adaptation tropical climates. introduction high-performance hybrid broilers, though beneficial, requires careful management avoid like thermal stress. Financial constraints also hinder growth small-scale farms, limiting ability invest necessary inputs technologies. Innovative solutions use renewable energy sources improved ICTs can help overcome limitations. By addressing holistically, become more robust, contributing food security development region.

Language: Английский

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0