Layer poultry Project
Layer poultry Project
Kasese Community Health and Education Foundation (KCHEF) is establishing this poultry project to improve the social welfare of its members and the community through a poultry commercial income generating enterprises.
The project was planned after a women and girl child felt need to address immense poverty affecting women and girl child at household and community level.
We realize women and girl children facing a number of contemporary forms of slavery in society. Many women and girl children depend on men. We realize many women living a single life with helpless children, some are widows, single child mothers as a result of early and forced marriage, drop out of school due to lack of means, domestic violence and conflicts at family level, women and girl children lack basic skills for development in order to live an independent life as a result of skills. We felt it to initiate a poultry project to address such challenges faced by women and girl children.
The strategies of the poultry project
- Improve the economic condition of members, women and girl child as well that of the community or other employees of society as a whole.
- Train the interested parties in income generative activities in order to generate enough money to support their families and the community.
- To set up a women and girl child demonstration center where women and girl child/youths will meet to train and seek information.
- Train local farmers to acquire more efficient management skills in poultry production, harvesting, storage, processing and marketing.
- Help farmers to objectively focus on the needs of the family and the demands of the market and promote high value market-oriented birds.
- Providing improved varieties of breeds of birds that are quick maturing and high yielding under average systems of management.
- Community mobilization and sensitization of the people to actively participate in the various project components.
Budget Estimates & Requirements
Target
The poultry house to accommodate 1000 birds that are in our projection shall be family contribution. The amount budget for the house is for expansion in order to accommodate
1,000 birds.
The project will require furniture and farm tools; all estimated and valued to cost UGX: 900,000. This will be part of local contribution by the group. Some of the
requirements/tools that have not been highlighted for this project, we have them.
1500 day old chicks will be procured from a well-established supplier. Each chick is estimated to cost UGX: 5,500/=, hence, a total of UGX: 5,500,000/= will be required for
this item.
