Up scaling Chicken-Fish integrated farming

project for Food Security and Rural livelihood

Enhancement, Seka district, Jimma

Learning Event Workshop

1st of July, 2016

Nazra Hotel, Addis Ababa

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 Background of Jimma university

Jimma university is a public organization

 geared to ward human resource development plan of the
country

It has a mandate of community service

 as research & development undertaking in addition to its
educational role

The JU has very clear goal

in releasing or adopting technologies that can help the small
holder farmers to alleviate poverty

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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Project type: Matching grant fund

Financer (Euro)
 ICCO-Cooperation contribution: 40052.70
 Own contribution: 40033.36
 Out growers contribution: 17777.97
 Project total Budget: 80066.72

Project duration: 1 year period

Project location: Jimma zone, OMONADA district, Ethiopia

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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Why Integrated farming?

Integrating chicken farming system with fish farming system can
accommodate the demand for food
utilization of limited resources
conservation of environment
reduction of investment risk through diversification
diversification of family food source
increment of employment opportunities
productivity and sustainability
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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Geographical Site Significance

Jimma is among geographically well-known

 potential area in the west Ethiopia where
 the natural resources are relatively intact
It is known for chronic malnutrition and related
challenges
The project was initiated
 to demonstrate and transform the socioeconomic condition of
the small scale farmers in Gilgel Gibe belt
 by filling the gaps in food and nutrition security in the
project area and the zone at large.
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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Achievements of the project

Output1: On site establishment of the
integrated farm as
demonstration site for
training

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Background of previous FSRE projects

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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Output2: on farm establishment of

the integrated farming for
60 farmers.
Supply 200 fingerlings and 40
pullets to each farmer had been
completed.

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Background of previous FSRE projects

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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Achievements of the project

Output 3: Market access improved
 60 fish and egg producer farmers
skilled to provide their products
directly to potential customer (café,
restaurant, hotel, institutional
consumer) in Jimma, omo nada and
Hassendabo towns
Output 4: Capacity of stakeholders strengthened
 6 water pumps distributed
 All farmers trained about integrated
farm construction and management,
poultry feed formulation, their business
cost benefit assessment, market linkage
(how to create market for surplus
products)
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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Achievements of the project (Outcomes)

all HH had started gaining income
from egg and fish sales ,
5 farmers had been supplying the others
( with fingerling sale at price of 5 birr/
fingering)
All farmers had gained know how, on
cost benefit assessment of their
business,
feed formulation to poultry breeds to
assure sustainability,
The potential for restocking the
poultry replacement by brooding
dietary significance of the animal
protein
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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Achievements of the project

(Outcomes)
2 family members from each
beneficiary HHs permanently job
created
All HH had started using the
products for home consumption

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Background of previous FSRE projects

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 Cost- benefit Analysis
A. Chicken production (layers)
Fixed Items Cost/year
I. Input cost
Poultry house 500
Feederer and waterer 100
Chicken 1920
Variable Items
Feed cost (13 quintal/year) 11700
Labour 5400
II. Out put Total annual cost 19620
No Hen Average egg/year One egg price Annual return

1 250 3 750
40 10000 3 30,000
Profit /year Annual return-Total annual cost
=30,000-19620
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 Cost- benefit Analysis
A. Chicken production (layers)
I. Input cost
Fixed Items Cost/year
Pond construction 1500

Fish fingerling purchase 1000

II. Out put
Total annual cost 2500

No fish Average kg/year One kg price Annual return

2 2kg 50 100
400 200kg 50 10000
Profit /year
Annual return-Total annual cost =10,000-2500 =7500

III.Total profit = profit from egg +profit from fish

= 10380+7500
= 17,880
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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Challenges of the project

The college had encountered
 50% losses of pullet from outbreak of disease in the hatchery
house, that contributed to limit the number of pullet distributed
in phase I
The price of concentrate supplement for grower birds
were to high from companies that
 forced as to propose an alternatives strategies for
sustainability

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 Background of previous FSRE projects

Lesson learned
‘‘prevention is better than control’’ especially for poultry
disease
The college had encountered
 50% losses of pullet from outbreak of disease in the hatchery
house, that contributed to limit the number of pullet distributed
in phase I
Hatchery ponds in JUCAVM chicken –fish integrated
farm should be constructed and started the construction

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 Description of the up scaling project

The main purpose of the up scaling

The project focuses on scaling up of tested model of
chicken-fish integrated farming for
 additional smallholder farmers in Seka chekorsa
district.
It has two main components:
 Expanding the successful chicken-fish integrated
farming for 60 potential rural farmers in Seka district
 Strengthening the capacity of all stakeholders

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 Description of the up scaling project

Key partners for implementing the project

1.FSRE/ICCO cooperation
2.Jimma Zonal Livestock and fishery resources bureau
3.Sabata and zeway Agricultural research centres
4.Seka chekorsa Livestock and fish resources office
5.Fish-egg producers Farmers Cooperatives of omo
nada district
6.Others

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 Description of the up scaling project

The overall targets of the project

Is to expand the proven chicken –fish integrated farming
experience at Omonada district to potential rural farmers
in the Seka new project area: thus
1. ensuring diversification of livelihoods
2. improved nutritional status
3. increased income-generating capacity of the
smallholder farmers
4. Creation of new job opportunities

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 Description of the up scaling project

Milestone activities in brief

Stakeholder workshop will be carried out
Integrated fish- chicken farm will be established at the
binging of the project period.
Improvement of market access;
Finally, the integrated chicken-fish farming will be
further expanded to trained model farmers from adjacent
districts.

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 Previous and current FSRE Projects link

Fingerling supply to the new beneficiaries

Knowledge and experience sharing through farmers field
day
Similarity of the two project high but, it is extrapolation
of the proven model and its experience in omo nada to
Seka beneficiary
NB: New Dimension of the up scaling project is the
intensive use of farmers to farmers skill of nada
experience sharing platform to ensure fast
implementation within 5 months time.

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 Risks and Mitigation Strategies

Risks
Disease outbreak among the crossbred poultry birds being
distributed
The safety issue around ponds to safe grand the children
and animals
Mitigation strategies
Vaccination at day old stages
Construction of fences around the ponds

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 Sustainability of the up-scaling project

The use of natural brooding for incubation of eggs and presence of

hay box brooder in JUCAVM is promising strategy to get
replacement stock.
The training and skill attained by the farmers were assumed to
solved feed shortage home made feed formulation from available
crop resources
The Bureau of agriculture as implementing agencies and
capacitated expertise will take over the follow up role to ensure the
project continuity and scale up to other farming community
Farmers to farmers /knowledge sharing or training will ensure the
continuity of the project

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 Other required service and inputs

Medication of the crossbred birds

Supply of day old chicks and hay box brooder
Networking of the producers to market (consumers)
through restructuring
Credit service to poultry pullet if commercial farming is
to be adopted by certain segment of the beneficiaries.

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 Gender strategies

The project had involved 30% of the beneficiaries to be

women household because of
the very nature of the poultry keeping that requires the
female and youngster members of the household(enable to
income contribution, nutritional role to house hold etc) inline
with the existing culture.

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