Rabbit Production in Semi Arid Zone of Sokoto State Salihu Abdullahi Abubakar 1 and Abdulrahman Bello 2 * 1 Department of Agricultural Technology, Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Nigeria 2 Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Nigeria *Corresponding author: Abdulrahman Bello, Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria. To Cite This Article: Abdulrahman Bello, Rabbit Production in Semi Arid Zone of Sokoto State. 2020 - 7(3). AJBSR.MS.ID.001147. DOI: 10.34297/AJBSR.2020.07.001147. Received: February 04, 2020; Published: February 18, 2020 Copy Right@ Abdulrahman Bello This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License AJBSR.MS.ID.001147. American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research www.biomedgrid.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISSN: 2642-1747 Review Article Abstract The paper was compelled to educate student and farmers in the area of Rabbit Production. The paper tries to summarize so many literatures in order to easy the act of learning rabbit production in relation to the regional weather of Sokoto state. There have been series of studies and papers on rabbit production but not even a single study has been carried out on the management of rabbit production by peasant farmer in relation to the weather condition in Sokoto south local government of Sokoto state. Keywords: Rabbits production; Nigeria; Stock size; Farmers 224 Introduction Rabbits production in Nigeria plays a significant role in the development and provision of food and materials for marketing purposes; however there are some problems which may be affecting the production of rabbit in Nigeria; these problem could be poor management procedure, poor funding and lack of treatment measure for health problem promotion rabbit production area of agriculture and un ability to select good breed stock for rearing by the farmer, Secondly there have been series of studies on rabbit production but not even a single study has been carried out on the management of rabbit production by peasant farmer on Sokoto south local government of Sokoto state. Socio-Economics Characteristics of Rabbits Farmers The socio-economic characteristics of the rabbit’s farmers consist of the distribution of farmers in age, gender, marital status, stock size and other characteristics. The distribution of rabbits farmers by occupation which was prove to be 33% of all farmers are government employees (civil servants, teachers, etc)while 39% and 28%represent private sector(artisans, business man, farmers, etc) and others (student, retirees, etc) respectively. This trend shows that those engaged in rabbit farming cut across all professions and walks of life in the society [1].Also the distribution of rabbit farmers by person(s) in charge of the units by purpose for keeping rabbits is a significant proportion of the farmer(60%) indicated that the primary reasons for keeping rabbits for consumption with occasional sales of excess stocks. this implies that rabbit keeping serves the primary goal of providing supplemental protein for the household. others (18%)multiple reasons for establishing enterprise [1].furthermore the distribution of rabbit farms by type of material use for cage construction and the distribution of rabbit farms by type of cage design are also analyze to be mostly place outside the house(67%)while the remaining units place their cages inside their houses because of thieves or to maximize the effect of heat stress [1]. Management of Rabit BY Peasant Farmer The management of rabbit is done on a small- scale by a peasant farmer is raised for many different uses, and they can play an important role in a small sustainable family operation. While the most common use in agricultural industries is for meat, rabbit also is raised for pelts, manure, show, and laboratory use. Rabbit meat is highly protein and low in fat, calories, and cholesterol when compared to most of the meat eaten in the United States [2]. Rabbits are prolific and will breed year-round in well managed Rabbitries. Does have been known to kindle (give birth) up to 23