Perception of Stakeholders to the Proposed Ban on Cow Hide Consumption in Ogun State, Nigeria

Abstract

Abstract The high frequency of cow skin (ponmo) consumption decreases the supply of hides and skin to the shoe and leather cottage industries. Thus perception of role players in cow skin value chain to a ban on its consumption was investigated in Ogun State. Purposive and random samplings were used to select 150 respondents. Data was collected using interview schedule and analysed with descriptive and inferential statistics. Results reveal that majority (60.7.0%) of the respondents were female, within the age of 36-42years, married (75.3%) and had secondary education (42.7%). Respondents had low knowledge of the proposed ban (58.0%), 56.0% had high awareness of the possible benefits but 56.0% had negative perception towards the proposed ban. There were significant correlation between sources of information (r=0.279, p=0.001), level of knowledge (r=0.281, p=0.001), constraints that respondents may face from the ban (r=0.165, p=0.043), awarepness of the possible benefits (r=0.461, p=0.000) and respondents perception to the proposed ban on cow skin consumption. Since more than half of the respondents had negative perception despite their awareness of benefits, concrete efforts need to be taken to improve livestock production in order to cater for leather industries and consumption.