Enquête sur l'élevage traditionnel volailles au Cameroun

Abstract

Enquête sur l'élevage traditionnel volailles au Cameroun. A survey was conducted in three ecological zones of Cameroon to analyse some technical and socio-economic parameters of traditional chickens farming which gives about 60 % of the national poultry meat production. From the results obtained, it appears that rural poultry farming is essentially a women and children business (79 %) and the indigenous bush chicken is the dominant species. The productivity of traditional poultry is low and high mortality is recorded as a result of diseases and predators. Traditional medicine is widely used for poultry disease control in this production system and should be more deeply studied.

Keywords

• Traditional
• Poultry production
• Cameroon