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| 6x6 chicken pen with chickens inside |
The
Avatele Village Chicken farming program was proposed and submitted by the
Avatele Village Council to the FAO Telefood Program TFD 10/NIU/004 and has been
a successful working progress as followed up on; this has been coordinated by
the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and facilitated by
the senior livestock officer Mr Tom Misikea with the assistance of Tom Vaha
(assistant livestock officer). The project involves building of chicken pens for
the village council members for the village of Avatele as a mean of food
security and to alleviate poverty within the community, and by the looks of it so
far so good as they are almost finished. The role of DAFF was to facilitate the
AVC (Avatele village council) with the development and structural of the
recipients chicken pen sites enabling the project to be implemented. As agreed,
the facilitator with the AVC was to let the facilitators do the profiling of
the site and the construction of the chicken pens, whereas the VC members dig
the holes for the posts and also looking for extra posts needed. There are two
different layouts of chicken pens designed, one with a 6m x 6m size and a smaller
sized pen with 3m x 6m. The main objective of this project is that to help raise
and keep chickens inside cages to increase the production (egg and meat
producing chickens) and also for protection from theft and unwanted predators. Having
done proposed projects as the Avatele Village Council has done, it will be a
good chance for the other villages to plan their projects similarly to this for
means of food security.
