Tanzania: Private entity moves to enhance local chicken breeds availability

A PRIVATELY owned entity based in the capital city has established a major modern poultry farm which seeks to have improved local chicken breeds. Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. In efforts to have the best products, the Tanzania Youth Entrepreneurship group (TYEG), now commands a total of ten acres at Bihawana's Mbadala Ward in the city where it has put up a huge facility of incubators for professional hatching of different varieties of local chicken breeds. During an interview regarding the vital investment, the group's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Christopher Dioniz noted that the reason behind the project was to restore and heighten production and availability of local chicken breeds. "Demand for local chicken keeps increasing and most poultry farmers now seem busy producing hybrid breeds, through artificial insemination (AI) as an alternative means to ...