The World Vision Rwanda led a delegation of 22 people including its staff, partners from AEE and Duhamic Adri who in February 2023 visited the RDO poultry project, Nyungwe Cluster in Rusizi District.
The delegation had participants from across 25 in Rwanda where World Vision operates from for learning from each other and to share experience as well as good practices.
Aimable Nsengiyumva, the World Vision Rwanda Technical Programs Manager led the tour that visited a successful poultry farmer and Tuzamurane kirehe, a poultry rearing group located in Gitambi sector.
Marie Goreth Bayavuge, a poultry farmer from Muganza sector in Rusizi District shared her experience on how she has increased the number of chicken from 6 to 200 in only six months after training and being linked to poultry value chain actors by RDO.
Bayavuge was linked to Uzima chicken company, reduced the death rate of her chicken from 17% to 0.01%, started farm records keeping and commenced the making of her own chicken feeds, all as a result of RDO training.
“The technical support from RDO has helped me increase my chicken and my target now is to have 1,000 chicken by the end of this year,” Bayavuge told the visitors.
Listening to her, everyone was impressed by such a big reap in a short period of time working with RDO and with no particular monetary investment. The story of Tuzamurane Kirehe was also quite captivating on how RDO supported them revive the group.
For Tuzamurane kirehe, the poultry rearing group had collapsed and ceased to exist for 3 years due to the internal conflicts between its members. But with RDO intervention the group is operational again with 500 chicken and a poultry feeds shop. Both of their businesses (chicken & feeds) are booming.
RDO is pioneering poultry value chain in Gakenke, Gisagara, Huye and Rusizi Districts which are grouped in three clusters as; Buranga Cluster covering Gakenke District, Ishema Cluster for Gisagara and Huye Districts, while Nyungwe Cluster covers Rusizi District. Whereas the target was to train 1,869 farmers from all clusters, 2,525 (884 Female, 1,641 Male) farmers have so far been trained on Poultry Feeds, Feeding Practices and Feed Production, Poultry Diseases Control and Prevention, Poultry and farm Record keeping, Business Planning and Budgeting,
Increased Accessibility and Usability of Poultry Insurance Schemes as well as Construction of Poultry Cages.
All trained farmers have also been linked to other poultry value chain actors for easy access of services and markets. Contract payment agreements between farmers and poultry value chain actors have also been signed. These actors include; Veterinarians, feed suppliers, poultry product buyers, financial institutions and insurance companies.
The poultry project implemented by RDO is supported by World Vision Rwanda in a bid to increase incomes and nutrition among vulnerable communities through animal proteins consumption.
