The West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP) – a World Bank project under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) is organising a week-long road show “The FSRP Chicken Road Show” to enable the Ghanaian public to sample Grown-in-Ghana broiler chicken. Under the road show, selected beneficiary anchor farmers under FSRP would be grilling between 1000-2000 hygienic, nutritious and delicious locally bred chicken for sampling by sections of the public:
9:00am – Ministers, Diplomatic Corps, Senior Officials, Media, Invited Guests
2:00pm - Public Servants, including Civil/Local Government Staff
The tasting exercises start at 2pm each day at the FSRP grilling stand with an open invitation to the public.
State officials, parliamentarians, public figures, patriotic celebs, schools, private organisations and interest groups are all invited to come and taste and support hygienic, nutritious, tasty, spicy and crispy locally raised chicken. Just
Other Regions
“The FSRP Chicken Road Show” will be replicated in other regions immediately after the Farmers Day celebrations.
MOFA - FSRP Poultry Intensification Scheme (PIS)
As at 2021, imports of chicken and its products was in excess of $300 million. MoFA - FSRP is implementing the PIS,aimed at revamping the local broiler industry. An amount of$12.5m has been set aside from the World Bank funding for implementation of the FSRP to fund the PIS over a 5-year period. Under the scheme, commercial anchor farmers and their smallholders are receiving support to produce, process and market at least 2 million birds annually over the next five (5) years. Beneficiaries are receiving input credit in the form of day-old chicks, feed supplies, as well as supplies of vaccines. They are also being trained in best modern practices and climate-smart technologies within the poultry industry. They will further be able to access matching grants to procure equipment to support post-production processing and cold storage equipment/ infrastructure.
The ‘FSRP Chicken Road Show’ therefore forms part of the implementation activities of the MOFA - FSRP Poultry Intensification Scheme to enable Ghanaians sample healthy, hygienic and affordable Grown-in-Ghana broiler birds.
Accomplishments So Far
In July 2024, twenty-two commercial farmers werecompetitively selected from 6 regions (Ashanti, Bono, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Eastern) to participate in the PIS. Since then, FSRP has facilitated input credit for 8 of these anchor farmers. by way of 360,500 day-old chicks, 911, 000 doses of vaccines (HBI, Lasota, Umboro 1 & 2) and 4.5kg of feed per bird – totalling 1,179,000 kg of feed; in all, amounting to nearly 830,000 USD so far. As a result, within 4 months (as at end October 2024), the Poultry Intensification Scheme has led to the production of 400,000 bird
Media Participation
Media houses and pressmen/women were invited to directly witness the entire process of producing homegrown broilers, from farm to fork. It commenced with the handover of day-old chicks to outgrowers in the Ashanti Region[https://fb.watch/vDb8LNVyCx/]. 5 weeks after that, they were invited to witness the transportation of grown birds to processing facilities and followed through the entire processing routine from slaughtering, dressing, packaging, blast freezing [https://gna.org.gh/2024/07/fsrp-poultry-ready/#google_vignette], and later delivered to retail shopsand to consumers – all done under strict regulatory oversight.
Strict Supervision
FSRP-produced broilers are raised under the prying eyes of an entire community of state regulatory bodies and experts. Monitoring teams made up of officials of Animal Production Directorate (APD-MOFA), the Veterinary Services Dept (VSD-MOFA), respective Regional/ District Departments of Agriculture and FSRP Social and Environmental experts and other regulatory officials inspect the poultry farms and processing facilities to ascertain their adherence to laid down industrial standards like feed quality, vaccination timeliness,bio-security protocols, stipulated weights and general healthcare of the birds.
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