Lira City, July 25, 2024: More than 200 poultry farmers in Lango sub-region have been trained on the better management of their projects so that they earn good money from them.
The one-day training took place at Apostolic Social Centre in Lira City and was organised by local private company Kamp Feeds in collaboration with Lango Poultry Farmer’s Cooperative Society Limited.
The training, according to the partners, was geared towards scaling yields of domestic birds, helping farmers to make more money and eat quality chicken meat.
The farmers who attended the training in Lira City hail from the Lango Sub-region districts of Lira, Alebtong, Otuke, Oyam, Kole, Kwania, Apac, Dokolo, and Lira City. Housekeeping for chicken, and mixing feeds were the key areas of the training.
Speaking during the training, Rumbidzay Nyabadza, Chief Executive Officer of Kamp Feeds Limited explained that most of the farmers in the country still lack knowledge on poultry rearing to the extent that they can not accurately mix the ingredients of the feeds as recommended by the professionals.
In the same vein, Maxwell Isaiah Opio, a Veterinary Assistant at Lango Poultry Farmer’s Cooperative Society Ltd admitted that poultry farmers need knowledge and skills that can help them good quality birds.
“People have gained much interest in rearing chicken but there are challenges that they are facing. Our farmers do not know the ratio of ingredients in the chicken feeds,” said Opio.
He urged the farmers to provide quality feeds to their birds and animals in order to have good yields, warning that cheap chicken feeds available on the market are not good for their growth, and as a result, he said, farmers earn less money from the birds.
Meanwhile, farmers who underwent the training are hopeful that their poultry enterprises will perform better, with some urging the partners to take the same training deep down in the villages.
Solinah Ayo, a resident of Dokolo district who keeps 100 layers said she would use the knowledge acquired to look after her birds better, although she said she faces the challenges of expensive feeds, diseases and poor housing for the birds.
“The more they eat, the more you many eggs you get but this is expensive. However, my major challenge was the diseases that attack the birds. We spend a lot of money on treating them. But I have learnt that in order to protect the birds from disease attack, we need to have a proper housing to protect them from dust, rain, and their drinkers should also be clean,” Ayo said.
Janet Okello, a resident of Kichope cell in Lira City West Division who wants to start a big poultry project said she has been rearing chicken for the past years but without realising quality yields, and good profit. However, after the training, Okello is hopeful she will be able to deliver good quality birds to the market and earn good money.
“Those days we would just give our chicken anything to eat and we were making losses. Having trained, I will now take care of my chicken so well so that I can be able get good profit,” Okello said.
Abel Ayita from Apac district said that the same knowledge be given to the other farmers in the villages so that they can manage their poultry projects better.
“I have understood that rearing chicken starts from providing them good, housing, feeding them well, ensuring cleanness, and keeping records, but I now call upon Kamp Feeds roll out the training in all the villages so that more farmers benefit,” he said.
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