THE APPLICATION OF THE MARKETING CONCEPT IN THE MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL (POULTRY) PRODUCTS IN ABIA STATE
(A CASE STUDY OF ELEGANCE POULTRY FARMERS COOPERATIVE SOCIETY ABA SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ABIA STATE)
By
IHEDIOHA UCHE .C. CEM/N2003/041
Presented To
Department of
Cooperative Economic And Management
ABSTRACT
The topic, the application of the marketing concept in the marketing of agricultural products is an interesting topic, which has given the researcher a challenging opportunity to investigate, and was able to come forward with certain facts about the topic.
As the topic implies, the marketing concept is a philosophy that holds that the customer satisfaction is the social and economic justification for the existence of a business agriculture as a form of business is not in exemption when it comes to the marketing of its products. Have, poultry business is sampled out and the application of marketing concept in the marketing of its products, in the course of researching into this associated with poultry management and how it will affect the consumers if the farmers are marketing oriented rather than sales oriented.
Such problems are discussed in details in chapters of the research work and useful recommendation suggestion made to guide poultry farmers who apt to practice real marketing ethics and its concepts if applied will help them to remain in the business successfully.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
APPROVAL PAGE
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1.2 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
1.3 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ELEGANCE (ABA) POULTRY FARMERS COOPERATIVE SOCIETY
1.4 DEFINITION OF TERMS AND SYMBOLS
1.5 LIMITATIONS
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 INTRODUCTION (REVIEW OF LITERATURE)
2.1 MARKETING OF POULTRY PRODUCTS
2.3 FEED MILLING AND CONSUMERISM IN RELATION TO POULTRY INDUSTRY
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND DESIGN
3.1 SOURCE OF DATA APPLICATION OF THE INSTRUMENT OF RESEARCH
3.2 APPLICATION OF INSTRUMENT OF RESEARCH
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA
4.1 ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONNAIRE AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 SUMMARY
5.2 CONCLUSION
5.3 RECOMMENDATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX 1
QUESTIONNAIRE