In Songea municipal Chicken (broilers, layers and indigenous) are the major poultry in which stakeholders engage in keeping. Some of the stakeholders uses improved technologies in poultry keeping while others especially those located at peripheral wards still uses old methods in poultry keeping but all in all poultry keeping has become a good source of income for most stakeholders.
Table1: 21 Amount of chicken Production from 2014/2014
Year
Broilers and Layers
Indigenous chicken
Eggs produced
Meat produced (kg)
2014/2015
586,774,020
40,663
119,265
2015/2016
391,658,972
20,790
20,250
Total
978,432,992
61,453
139,515
Source: Department of livestock and Fisheries (2014-2016)
It can be observed from table 1.5 that the number of Chicken meat and its products have decreased compared to Chicken population from table 1.0, this is because last year some farmers reported low production of eggs due to diseases affecting egg production.
