EFFECT OF COVID-19

After spreading through East Asia, Europe, and North America in early 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic started affecting countries in Africa. However, there has been little or no work on the effect of COVID-19 on Urban Poultry Enterprise. This study therefore evaluates the effect of COVID-19 on urban poultry enterprise in Ovia-North East and Egor local government area. And the specific objectives of this study are to: examine the socio-economic characteristics and level patronage of the poultry enterprise in the study area, estimate the income of respondents in the pre and during of the COVID-19 era, examine the constraint facing the poultry enterprise and the preventive measures put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19 by the government and then identify coping strategies of poultry enterprise in the pre and during the COVID-19 era. A three stage sampling technique was used, involving a purposive selection of five most urban towns, based on urbanization and presence of poultry enterprise, getting the contact of the poultry farmers, using the Krejcie and Morgan 1970 sample size technique and then a simple random sampling of 70 percent of the respondents from the sample size gotten from population. The result of the descriptive statistics reveals the R-Square of 0.3375 which indicates that household size, farm size, annual farm income and number of eggs collected
daily eggs collected daily have 33.75% influence on the effects of COVID-19 on Deleted[user]: lockdown Deleted[user]: lockdown poultry enterprise. This indicates that there is a significant relationship between some of the socio-economic characteristics of the poultry farmers and effect of COVID-19 on poultry enterprise, there is a difference in the patronage of poultry products and income of urban poultry farming farmers in the two era of COVID-19 in Ovia North- East and Egor Local Government Area, Edo State. In conclusion, in curbing the effect of the COVID-19 insurgency, it is important that Federal Government strive to promote and integrate public health measures, along with food security measures in the society