POULTRY SECTOR RECEIVES $57M BOOST

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The United States Department of Agriculture, USDA is investing 57 million Dollars under a Food for Progress Initiative to enhance the value chain in Ghana’s Poultry farming industry. 

The USDA-sponsored Ghana Poultry Project is being implemented over a five year period to increase the competitiveness of the domestic production and processing of poultry meat through capacity building and boost the trade of poultry products by improving product quality, increasing production efficiency, and improving market linkages. 

 It will focus on addressing post-harvest handling deficiencies and improving quality of feed and demonstrating to farmers on what using quality feed can do for them. 

 At the launch of a Field Survey of Baseline studies for the Ghana Poultry Project in Kumasi, the Senior Research Fellow of the Bureau of Integrated Rural Development at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Dr. Paul Sarfo Mensah explained that the project will improve efficiencies at key stages of the poultry value chain, reduce the country’s dependence on imported poultry meat and improve profitability of egg production. 

An official of the Ghana Statistical Service, Peter Takyi Peprah commended the collaboration between researchers and relevant states institutions to ensure standardization in data collection. 

According to him, it is a directive of the United Nations to all member countries to comply with rules and regulation governing data collection.

 Mr. Takyi Peprah therefore urged various stakeholders in the USDA-sponsored Ghana Poultry Project to build a well structured database that can stand the test of time.

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