Ghana: Agric Minister lauds FSRP poultry at farmers’ day

Published 2024년 11월 11일

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The West African Food Systems Resilience Programme (FSRP), a World Bank project, has been commended by the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, for meeting its poultry production timeline. The FSRP has initiated the 'FSRP Chicken Road Show' at the National Farmers Day Exhibition, where it has distributed 1000 to 2000 hygienic, nutritious chickens for public sampling. The scheme, funded by a US$12.5m grant from the World Bank, aims to increase Ghana's current 5% poultry production to 12% in five years through the Poultry Intensification Scheme (PIS). This scheme provides support to commercial anchor farmers and smallholders to produce, process, and market two million birds annually.

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By Wisdom JONNY-NUEKPE Minister for Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong has lauded the West African Food Systems Resilience Programme (FSRP) for meeting the project’s poultry production timeline and embarking on its maiden chicken road show at this year’s National Farmers Day Exhibition, dubbed Agrifest. The FSRP Chicken Road Show” is to enable the Ghanaian public to sample Grown-in-Ghana broiler chicken. Under the road show, selected beneficiary anchor farmers under FSRP grilled between 1000 and 2000 hygienic, nutritious and delicious locally bred chicken for sampling by sections of the public. The five-day fair, which is hosted by MoFA, is an integral part of the National Farmers Day Celebration and forms part of activities to commemorate the events. At the FSRP stand, the sector minister lauded the initiative and touted it as one of the surest way to augment domestic production and increasing it from the current five percent. “We produce about five percent of poultry and the ...

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