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Ghana\u2019s poultry industry is back to life, Mr Osei Owusu Agyeman, Project Coordinator, Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP) declared on Friday.<\/p>\n
He said the industry was witnessing a massive revival towards building sustainable businesses in the value chain to bridge the country\u2019s food deficit gap.<\/p>\n
Mr Agyeman said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency after some selected commercial poultry farmers in the Ashanti Region took delivery of about 130,000-day-old chicks to revamp the poultry sector.<\/p>\n
The distribution is part of activities under the first phase of the Poultry Intensification Scheme under the West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP).<\/p>\n
The project, being implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, is to revamp the broiler industry in Ghana.<\/p>\n
Other regions in line for day-old chicks deliveries under the scheme are the Bono, Eastern, Greater Accra, Central and Volta, to contribute to the MOFA-FSRP mission to revamp the poultry industry in Ghana.<\/p>\n
The Poultry Intensification Scheme is being run in phases under World Bank funding, with each beneficiary receiving input credit in the form of about 160, 000 day-old chicks, 180,000 kilograms of feed, as well as supplies of vaccines, in the first round of allocations.<\/p>\n
They will also be granted training in best modern practices and climate-smart technologies within the poultry industry.<\/p>\n
The farmers will also have access to matching grants to procure equipment to support post-production processing and cold storage.<\/p>\n
The scheme targets the production of approximately two million broiler birds on a yearly basis, under a $12.5 million World Bank facility.<\/p>\n
Under the programme, some 22 commercial anchor farmers nationwide will be selected and supported to produce, process and market two million birds annually over the next three years.<\/p>\n
The criteria for participation in the scheme demands that applicants must have been in poultry (broiler) production, processing and marketing within the last five years.<\/p>\n
They must also be registered with the Registrar General or other statutory body and must have linkages with small holder farmers.<\/p>\n
The commercial farmers are among other things required to be in the databases of the District Directorate of Agric of their operational areas; must include at least 10 per cent women and 10 per cent youth in both upstream and downstream of the value chain; and must be compliant with requirements of regulatory bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana Fire Service, the Food & Drugs Authority, Ghana Standards Authority and the World Bank.<\/p>\n
The scheme will feed into the PFJ 2.0 targeted poultry self-sufficiency output of 400,000 metric tonnes per year by 2028.<\/p>\n
Mr Agyeman said the project, anchored on three themes of sustainability, ownership and public\/private engagement, \u201cis and attempt to sustain the broiler value chain\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said local hatcheries would be revived and youth incubation programmes held to build and sustain businesses in the value chain.<\/p>\n
Dr Abdul Razak Okine, a Deputy Director, Animal Production Directorate, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, said the project, which was in line with Government\u2019s Planting for Food and Jobs 2.0, was exciting farmers nationwide.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is attracting many young people and women and will hopefully help us close the food deficit gap\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
The West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP) is a World Bank funded programme, championed by ECOWAS for participating countries.<\/p>\n
It is to strengthen food system risk management, improve the sustainability of the agricultural productive base and harmonise agricultural markets in the West African sub region.<\/p>\n
Participating countries include Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sierra Leone, Togo and Chad.<\/p>\n
In Ghana, the project is focusing on the intensified production, marketing and consumption of wholesome Rice, Maize, Broiler Poultry, Tomatoes and Soyabeans for the poultry industry.<\/p>\n
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