The Women In Poultry Value Chain (WIPVaC), in collaboration with the West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP), is organising a Chicken Road Show to mark its 8th anniversary celebrations this week.
The event, which would be held on Tuesday 29th April 2025 within the enclave of the Ministries, would entail free public sampling of hot, tasty nutritious grilled chicken, a statement from the organisers said.
It said there would also be promotional sale of fresh, frozen, and homegrown chicken at off-market affordable prices, with great music.
Women In Poultry Value Chain is an umbrella organisation that seeks to bring together all women along the poultry value chain for common interests.
It comprises aggregators of maize and soya, day-old chicks suppliers, dealers in poultry inputs such as fishmeal, concentrates, poultry drugs and poultry feed, poultry farmers, egg sellers, distributors of chicken and guinea fowl, and processors of poultry products.
Their goal is to create new opportunities for women along the poultry value chain to stimulate developments for the benefit of society.
WIPVaC is a beneficiary of MOFA-FSRP’s Poultry Intensification Scheme (PIS), which commenced last year, under which they took delivery of input credit comprising day-old-chicks, feeds, vaccines and training for broiler production.
Their first cycle of production under the scheme is currently in the completion stage and ready for the market.
During the National Farmers Day Exhibitions and celebrations late last year, FSRP mounted a similar Chicken Road Show at the Efua Sutherland Children’s Park, during which visitors to the exhibition grounds were treated with hot, tasty, nutritious grilled homegrown chicken.
FSRP is a Government of Ghana project being implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, sponsored by the World Bank and coordinated by ECOWAS.
By Stanley Senya