Resilience of Poultry Agribusiness to Climate Stress in the Nigeria

DOI: 10.22161/ijeab/1.2.10

Keyword: Resilience, Poultry, Agribusiness, Climate, Stress.

Abstract: Today’s poultry business is susceptible to heat and cold stress. Current production system often involves large numbers of birds being housed together making them susceptible to heat stress . Climate change stress causes death of the birds and reduced production. The paper clearly shows that increasing proportion of poultry farmers in the tropical and sub-tropical region adopt various adaptation measures on short term and long-term scales to enhance resilience of today’s poultry agribusiness. The paper accentuates the potential use of naked neck and frizzle genes. Nutritional approaches to resilience such as feed intake, electrolytes and water balance or supplementing micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals to satisfy the special needs during climate change have been proven advantageous in this paper. Birds’ thermo-tolerance to cycles of heat and cold conditioning or even feed restriction seems to be the most promising management methods in enhancing climate change resistance of poultry in the short run. It is recommended that there should be sensitization programs through workshops on resilience strategies of poultry agribusiness to clmate stress in the tropics.

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Achoja Felix Odemero, Okpara Oghenesuvwe et al."Resilience of Poultry Agribusiness to Climate Stress in the Nigeria". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878),vol 1, no. 2, 2016, pp.155-163 AI Publications doi:10.22161/ijeab/1.2.10

Achoja Felix Odemero, Okpara Oghenesuvwe, P.(2016).Resilience of Poultry Agribusiness to Climate Stress in the Nigeria. International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(2), 155-163.10.22161/ijeab/1.2.10

Achoja Felix Odemero, Okpara Oghenesuvwe, P.(2016).Resilience of Poultry Agribusiness to Climate Stress in the Nigeria. International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(2), pp.155-163.

Achoja Felix Odemero, Okpara Oghenesuvwe. 2016."Resilience of Poultry Agribusiness to Climate Stress in the Nigeria". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(2):155-163.Doi:10.22161/ijeab/1.2.10

Achoja Felix Odemero, Okpara Oghenesuvwe."Resilience of Poultry Agribusiness to Climate Stress in the Nigeria", International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology,vol.1,no. 2, pp.155-163,2016.

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title={Resilience of Poultry Agribusiness to Climate Stress in the Nigeria},
author={Achoja Felix Odemero, Okpara Oghenesuvwe , R},
journal={International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology},
volume={1},
year= {2016} ,
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