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    PROFITABILITY AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF INDIGENOUS CHICKEN PRODUCTION IN OMORO AND OYAM DISTRICTS, NORTHERN UGANDA
    (Gulu University, 2017) ARYEMO IRENE , PENNINAH
    Indigenous chicken production has been recognized as an avenue to improve livelihoods of rural households in northern Uganda, where they provide meat, eggs and income. Venturing into commercial indigenous chicken production and marketing is a pathway to meeting the current unmet market demand for indigenous chickens and their products. Although indigenous chicken production is a promising enterprise, factors that drive farmers to change from subsistence to commercial indigenous chicken production are not clearly known. This study was conducted to assess drivers of profitability and commercialization among smallholder farmers of indigenous chickens in northern Uganda. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select districts, sub-counties, parishes, villages and indigenous chicken households to interview. A total of 180 indigenous chicken farming households were randomly selected to participate from Bobi and Lalogi sub-counties in Omoro district and Mınakulu and Loro sub-counties in Oyam district. The study adopted a cross sectional study design which enabled collection of data using pre-tested researcher administered questionnaires. Data entry, coding. cleaning and transformation were done using SPSS version 20 and data analysis and regressions were done using STATA version 13. A Marketindex was constructed to measure proportion of indigenous chickens marketed as a proxy for commercialization. A Tobit regression model was fitted using Maximum Likelihood Estimation techniques to determine drivers of commercialization level. Gross margin analysis was conducted to measure annual profits from indigenous chicken production and a multilinear regression was estimated using Ordinary Least Squares method to ascertain determinants of profitability. Overall, level of commercialization of indigenous chickens was found to be low as 31.2%. This level was affected by: number of cattle owned, indigenous chicken flock size. group membership and poultry extension services. Commercial indigenous chicken production was found to be profitable with average gross margins of UGX 118,704 equivalent to ($34) per annum. Results further revealed that profitability in indigenous chicken production and marketing was affected by sex of respondent, age of household head, bicycle access, group farming involvement, number of extension visits and family ownership of chickens. Results imply that indigenous chicken producers need to target marketing indigenous chickens to particular market segments. It can also be recommended that implementation of strategies to increase flock size like disease management, provision of targeted extension services and increased group involvement in chicken production and marketing should be done.