09/08/2025
The Future of Nigeria’s Affordable Meat Market 🥩🐇
In the near future, Nigerians may have no choice but to embrace rabbit farming, just as poultry dominates today.
Within the next 1.5 decades, poultry alone may fail to meet our growing population’s meat demand. Rising feed costs and competition with human food needs will threaten sustainability creating an opportunity for new, affordable alternatives.
While poultry has a high feed conversion rate, rabbits offer greater long-term scalability, lower costs, and better sustainability. This is the same competitive edge poultry once had over goats and cattle, which helped it dominate in the late 1900s.
Nigeria’s economy, with its wide income gap, means 80% of the population depends on affordable food. Meat prices keep rising, what used to buy 100kg may now barely get 10kg forcing households to adapt.
History shows the pattern: goat meat gave way to poultry in the 1990s, then catfish farming surged in the 2000s (I personally learn catfish breeding and management in 2012). Before the late ’80s, few cared about catfish, today it’s a massive industry.
The next shift will be toward a sustainable, affordable meat source. When that change comes, those already positioned along the value chain will reap the rewards.
My prediction: Rabbit farming will be that change.
✍🏾 Dr. Tunmise Joshua Oladele
📩 tunmisejoshua@gmail.com
El'Kingsley Tunmise Joshua
