Determinants of Health Management Practices’ Utilization and Its Effect on Poultry Farmers’ Income in Ondo State, Nigeria

Nigeria is the second largest poultry industry in Africa, with its most commercialized livestock sub-sector. Despite significance, farmers still experience economic losses due to disease outbreaks. Hence, application of standard Health Management Practices (HMPs) very important, as these practices improve welfare animals and increase animal production farmers’ income. This paper examined determinants HMP’s utilization effect on income Ondo State, Nigeria. We used multistage sampling procedures select 120 respondents who provided data for study. The study Generalized Poisson Regression (GPR) Conditional Quantile (CQR) models estimate intensity, heterogeneous effects income, respectively. results revealed that intensity was significantly driven by variables such education, training, experience, land ownership, stock size, mortality rate, system. In addition, had significant Therefore, government other developmental agencies should promote through provision poultry-based skills acquisition vocational education.