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Poultry farmers get GH₵500m support from ADB reduce to chicken imports

22/05/2020
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The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), has announced a GH₵500 million credit facility to assist Poultry farmers from six regions of Ghana.

The Move forms part of efforts by the bank to boost the agribusiness sector to make Ghana’s poultry industry competitive.

Earlier, the bank approved GH₵25 million cedis for six broiler value chain players to produce and process over a hundred thousand birds per week in the Bono Region.

The Managing Director of ADB, Dr. John Kofi Mensah, said the bank will disburse the GH₵500 million loan to broiler value chain players in input supply, producers, processors and market players in the six regions.

“It is obvious that when you look at the poultry value chain, you are thinking of hatchers who produce the day-old chicks. We are thinking of actual production which in the lay man’s language is about rearing of birds especially broilers.

“Then broilers have to be fed and so we are thinking of feed millers and feed millers mostly use cereals like maize and soya bean. Because it’s a value chain we are also looking at the processing of the matured broilers,” he said.

Poultry farmers in the Bono Region, Ashanti, Eastern, Central, Greater Accra and the Western Region are the six regions to benefit from the credit facility.

Currently, Ghana imports over $300 million worth of chicken, translating into five million chicken production weekly.

For this reason, Dr. Mensah stated that the loans will have an interest rate of less than 10 percent to help reduce the price of the local chicken and thereby reducing the country’s chicken imports significantly.

This, he said, will make enable Poultry farmers in Ghana compete favourably with their counterpart from outside.

“The bank will partner the Ministry of Agriculture and Finance to effectively roll out the project, “ he added.

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