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21 women benefit from poultry start-up projects

Twenty-one women in Sissala East Municipality have benefitted from a poultry start-up project targeted at reducing animal protein importation and encouraging rearing of poultry in the area.

Date Created : 4/21/2023 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Ghanadistricts.com/Rosemary Obeng Yeboah

The women were given 82 each of the same 14-week-old pullets layer birds, 50kg bags of feed and a cage for housing the birds, under the initiative known as the Savannah Investment programme.

The Acting Veterinary Officer in the Municipality, Mr. Eric Tergu who supervised the distribution said, the programme’s objective was to reduce the importance of animal protein, enhance the competitiveness of the poultry industry, and decrease malnutrition among households.

He advised the beneficiaries to take the support seriously and embrace it as their own rather than perceiving it as a project of the Department of Agriculture, adding that the successes of their 22 beneficiaries were the reason they received the support.

Speaking with Ghanadistricts.com, Mr. Tergu said the Department would only go for monitoring to ensure the programme was successful and cautioned the beneficiaries against selling the birds or allowing them to die which would prevent the Municipality from benefiting from future projects.

He mentioned again that Forty-three women farmers had earlier been enrolled onto the Savannah Investment Programme.