A Survey of Ready-To-Eat Meat Products Available in Kebbi and Sokoto States, Nigeria: A Consumer Approach

Abstract

A survey study was designed and investigated the popularity of various ready-to-eat meat products (RTE-MPs) available in Kebbi and Sokoto States, Nigeria. States metropolis and major towns on the Trunk „A1 and A26‟ Federal highway cutting across the states ware used as the sampling frame where 391 respondents (consumers) were randomly interviewed using a structured interview schedule between January and March 2015. Subjects were guided to mention the known RTE-MPs available in their localities and recorded. The responses were translated into scores and subjected to nonparametric descriptive statistics. The means were analysed in GLM Univariate ANOVA using SPSS (16.0) and separated by Tukey test to determine the popularity levels of RTE- MPs.Results indicated significant differences (p<0.05) between the popularity of the RTE-MPs among consumers. Balangu, tsire and kilishi were statistically the same and more popular with mean scores (1.00, 0.98 and 0.98) respectively, among other RTE-MPs. Gurunkaza, langabu and dambunnama were more popular (0.78, 0.58 and 0.46) respectively than soye and meat pie which recorded the least points (0.28 and 0.19) respectively. The study also found out that same product could have different names depending on the locality. Balangu was referred to as “agashe”, “gade” and “suya”; similarly, langabu was called “ragadada” and “ganda”; soye was also named “mazakwai”;kilishi and tsire were referred to as “suya”. The study concluded that though various RTE- MPs were produced and cherished in some localities, Balangu, tsire and kilishi were found to be more popular across the study area.