Lesson Learnt: How to Prevent Egg Cracks & Breakage Using Transportation Crates

This document captures the practical experience and lessons learnt from using Modern Egg Transportation crates for conveying eggs from farms to the point of sales by Mrs. Maryann Odoh, a small and medium scale egg off-taker and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MayChic Ventures, located at Bibi’s Plaza, Goshen Estate, New Artisan Market, Enugu-South Local […]

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Success Story: How to Convert Poultry Waste to Dry Odourless Manure

Amabor-Ngwo in Ngwo Asa Autonomous Community, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State, is a community of farmers. Over 50% of them are involved in broiler and egg production value chain of poultry farming. Vegetable, maize and other crops grow very well in Ngwo due to the abundance of poultry manure in the area. Crop […]

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Knowledge Sharing Product on Nipple Drinker and Pelletized Feed Technology in Deep Litter System

Broiler production in Lagos State has been identified as one of the lucrative Agricultural Businesses thriving in the State. This is due mainly to the opportunities it offers entrepreneurs in completing a cycle and making profit within a short period of time, usually an average of six (6)   weeks per cycle and the comparative advantage […]

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Sample BIP for Broiler Production

Poultry enterprise includes broilers production for meat, hen production for eggs, as well as processing and marketing of the poultry products. In Nigeria, poultry production is by far less than poultry consumption. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO START (2018) reported that Nigeria produces 650,000 tons of eggs and 300,000 tons of chicken meat representing 40% of the demand. Out of this output a village farmer produces 30% of the total production. In their report, Olam 2019 revealed that Nigeria unofficially spent about one hundred and fifty-two million USD (US$150-200) to import poultry products illegally into the Country. Thus, the poultry…

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VCIP on Poultry Production

This VCIP is developed to achieve an average liveweight yield of 2.5kg at 6weeks for the broilers raised as against 2.2kg hitherto realized at 8weeks by the farmers. The farmers are thus able to do 4cycles of production annually. A higher profit and return on investment are thus realized by the farmers. Their current scale of production of 174,500 broiler chickens per annum will also be increased to 218,800 broiler chickens per annum (25.39% increase) through the proposed business alliance and technical intervention of the APPEALS Project.

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VCIP on Poultry Processing/Marketing

This Value Chain Investment Plan describes in details the company’s vision, mission, objectives and values; It provide a thorough diagnostic assessment of the marketing sector of the poultry value chain; the strategy for achieving desired results and the project sustainability. A sustainability plan and necessary implementation schedule that will ensure the continuous success of the business even after the project life is also described.

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