Unité de recherche en évaluation des terres et agro-météorologie, Faculté des sciences Agronomiques, Université de Lubumbashi, B.P 1825, Haut-Katanga, RD Congo
It is currently noticed for the period of festivity of Christmas and New Year, an addition of table fowl in the diet of the Lushoise, even more stripped; its marketing is widespread in the large arteries and everywhere where there is an intense circulation. This study has like general objective, that to analyze the periodic marketing of table fowls in the town of Lubumbashi. To arrive there, the following specific goals were pursued: to identify the salesmen, the sold races, the places of sources, the constraints, to release the profit and the profitability of this activity.40 % of these salesmen except markets whose 77 actors were surveyed. The data were seized in Excel and the statistical analysis was made on the basis of language R version 2.15.0. (The descriptive analysis, the test of student with the threshold of 5% and the simple regression). The results obtained show that this activity is practiced by the women (79,0 %), detailing (92, 2 %), which practice the trade of the agricultural produce like principal activity (95,0 %) and which directs their capital in the sale of table fowls for the period of festivity of Christmas and new year. The results obtained show that this activity is practiced by the women (79,0 %), detailing (92, 2 %), which practice the trade of the agricultural produce like principal activity (95,0 %) and which directs their capital in the sale of table fowls for the period of festivity of Christmas and new year. This activity generates in 2 to 3 days an average profit of 172 789