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Success story 3: Alleviating poverty and improving livelihoods through indigenous poultry farming

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Publication date
26/05/2010
Number of Pages
2
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Working Papers & Briefs
Focus Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Focus Topic:
Agricultural Value Chains / Agri-Businesses
Source
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/ResearchIntoUse/riu040412-tz-success-stories-sized-3-mail.pdf
Author
RIU
Organization
RIU

The livelihood of over 3,500 rural poultry producers in RIU project area has been significantly improved through indigenous poultry farming by empowering farmers to increase production scales from an average of 5-10 chickens each to 100-300 per farmer, as well as frequency of production from only 1 in 12-18 months to 3 in 12 months.