Poultry Farming
Poultry farming serves as a powerful tool for women’s empowerment due to its accessibility, flexibility,and potential for economic independence. Providing women with chickens, husbandry and health training empowers them to profit from the
activity, investing not only in food diversity, but also in greater access to health, hygiene and access to education for children – vital to breaking vicious circles of poverty and under-development.
Poultry contributes to improved human nutrition and food security by being a leading source of high-quality protein in the form of eggs and meat. It acts as a key supplement to revenue from crops and other livestock enterprises, thus avoiding over-dependency on traditional commodities with inconsistent prices.
Poultry contributes to improved human nutrition and food security by being a leading source of high-quality protein in the form of eggs and meat. It acts as a key supplement to revenue from crops and other livestock enterprises, thus avoiding over-dependency on traditional commodities with inconsistent prices.
It has a high potential to generate foreign exchange earnings through the export of poultry products to neighboring countries. Poultry is highly prized in many social-cultural functions such as dowry and festivities. The poultry industry in Uganda is relatively new.