A number of constraints confront the livestock industry and impedes its growth and development. Some of the most limiting factors are listed and discussed as follows: 1) Nutrition and Feed Supplies on Livestock Production The provision of feed that is adequate both in quality and accessible to animals all year round is the most outstanding problem of livestock production in Nigeria. The natural range resources that form the primary source of nutrients have been observed to rapidly increase in nutritive value at the onset of rains and decline shortly thereafter.…

Human activities constitute the largest threat, followed by climatic conditions that affect the snails’ biodiversity and population of snails in snail farming in a given region. They include: – Deforestation i.e. the falling of trees for various purposes such as urbanization, road construction, building of industries, houses and schools. – Use of pesticides, fertilizers, nematocides by crop farmers in weeds and nematode control in the farming. The use of agro-chemicals such as pesticides in crop production also contributed in the change in the soil pH and the snail’s ecosystem and…

Animal production is an aspect of agricultural production and there are different types of agriculture. Agricultural science is simply defined as the art and science of crop, animal and fibre production for human consumption. In the study of the broad subject of agriculture, they can have different specializations ranging from agricultural economics, Farm machinery and some other aspects of agribusiness which enhances agricultural development. As a branch of agriculture, animal production deals with production of domesticated animals other than pets and game animals. As a subject matter it has roots…