Ogun Commences Broiler Empowerment Programme

The Ogun State Government has kicked off its Broiler Empowerment Programme with the delivery of 54, 000 day old chicks for 54 beneficiaries.

The reason for this is to increase food production and create employment opportunities for youths.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina, who led a team from the Ministry of Agriculture, while taking stock of the broiler birds at the Odeda Training Farm Institute, said the programme was designed as a public-private partnership (PPP).

He said the Ministry of Agriculture is providing support for the project, designed to, create source of livelihood for young agripreneurs through a cluster farming model.

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Odedina said each beneficiary would get 1,000 birds. It will take about 42 days make a profit of about N130,000 per production.

He added that there is the option of buy-back as off-takers like, Amobyn Farms Limited, will mop up the birds produced through a financing window provided by the Bank of Industry and Farmer moni Loan Programme for Agriculture.

He said the success of the pilot phase would lead to replication in other two senatorial districts of the state.

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