Presentation from the Informal Consultation on Livestock Issues between the FAO Animal Production and Health Division and interested Non-Governmental Organizations. 1–2 December 2009 Italy, Rome FAO Headquarters.
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Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development - A Backyard Poultry Value Chain I...
A Technical Cooperation for Small-scale Farmings in Developing Countries
1. A technical cooperation
for small-scale farmings
in developing countries.
Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009
2. 2 associative fundaments
1. Small-scale farmings are
important for society : social,
economical and
environmental performance
(if minimal conditions allow
their development).
2. Cooperation to strengthen
rural stakeholders and rural
organisations capacity.
Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009
3. Cooperation
themes and skills
1. Sustainable management of natural
ressources and rural territories :
Natural ressources availability (public goods).
Adaptation of natural ressources and
territories collective management
(pastoralism, forest, water management) and
their legal recognition.
Sustainability of farming and livestock
production system, ecologically intensive
farming.
Economically fair ressources promotion.
Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009
4. Cooperation
themes and skills
2. Strengthening of producers organisations, of
local and international markets
Strengthen producers organisations in order they well
control transformation and commercialisation
Secure and lucrative prices availability on local and
international markets (quality, certifications, …)
Limited dependance risks to large-scale agribusiness
industry by a diversification of commercial strategies
Limitated feeding risk by productions
diversification
Farmers skills promotion and products quality
improvement
Small-scale farming recognition by urban consumers
and local markets development that link them
directly.
Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009
5. Cooperation
themes and skills
3. Livestock and animal health services
development
Small-scale livestock profitability increase thanks
to zootechnical and animal health sustainable
services.
A strengthened livestock keepers function for
the outbreaks watching, linked to private and
public vets.
4. Appraisal to build local systems improving
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products sanitary quality, safeguarding veterinary
public health.
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6. Our cooperation
way of working
Working in partnership with local
stakeholders: FO, NGO, town councils,
training centers and universities, public
institutions.
Implementation of local projects with our
partners to promote a rural and sustanaible
small-scale farming, inserted in national
economies.
Stakeholders training and strengthening
of their capacity to promote their point of
view in public policies.
Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009
7. Advocacy in North
Promotion of the duties and
roles of small-scale farmings.
Protection of the food
security and the right to
feeding.
Protection of the poors’ right
to access water and land.
Promote fairtrade and demonstrate its impacts on the south
poor farmers and on economy.
Promotion of policies supporting territories and moutain and
pastoralist people development.
Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009
8. 4 major cooperation areas
South and Central America, Caraïbes
West Africa
Indien Océan
South-East Asia
Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009
9. AVSF in 2009
in a few numbers …
61 projects in 19 countries
A 220 persons staff (27 in France, 40 expatriate workers, more than 150
national professionals)
2008 Budget : 9 millions d’€
A network supported by 600 members et 9.000 contributors
More than 80 partnerships in the coutries
Technical partnerships in Europe (universities, research centers, local
authorities, agricultural organisations, French Agriculture Ministery, …)
Confirmed financial partnership with European Commission, French
Agency for Development, local authorities, european enterprises and private
fondations.
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11. Project components
1. Chicken Production
Strategy
2. Pig Production Strategy
3. Cattle Production Strategy
12. Chicken Production Strategy
1. Chicken health improvement
Provision of quarantine cage
De-worming with tetramisole
Vaccination again ND for two round and FP
as practical training
Provide medicine for the treatment of
disease and contact one vet pharmacy for
farmer group
Encourage farmers to construct bio-
security pen and normal pen
Follow up and advise farmer for chicken
health (treatment, vaccination….)
Organize the collective vaccination
campaign again ND
Organization of selling of vet medicine at
the village level
13. 2. Improvement of chicken production
Train villagers on chicken raising (Feeding,
breeding, taking care…)
Distribute 50 hybrid cock to farmers with
technique to separate the newly-born chick
after hatching
Organize the supply of corn bran
Advise farmers on feeding innovation using
locally availability feed resources
Follow up and advise the farmers on
separating newly –born chick from the hen
and taking care
Provide commercial feed for chicks, drinker
and feed through for farmers who practice
according to technical training
14. 3. Improvement of marketing
Facilitate in creation of one chicken
farmer group with 18 members and
system of share
Prepare regulation with marketing man in
the group committees
Provide materials for farmer groups
(scale, office materials…)
Install one marketing board
Provide 4 transporting cages
Contact middleman, restaurant in Kg.
Speu and updating the price of chicken
on weekly basis
Marketing man was invited to
participated in the training of marketing
Facilitate in providing Input of FAO to
group
15. Pig Strategy
1. Improvement of pig health
• De-worm pigs around the villages
• Vaccinated against FMD and CSF
• Training on pig health (vaccination, de-worming
treatment of diseases….).
• Treatment of piglets and sows and recommendation on
the treatment fattening
• Provide regular follow up and advise
• Involvement of VAHWs
16. 2. Improvement of pig production
• Train villagers on pig raising
(Feeding, breeding, taking
care...)
• identify all the sows with
identity card for implementation
of piglet care program:
preventive and curative
treatment for piglets and sow,
feeding , Primex using for sow…
• Improvement of system of pig
fattening: Improve feeding,
using basemix in the feed
• Provide 300USD in cash capital
for member for credit to
increase the production
17. 3. Improvement of pig marketing
• Facilitate in creation of one pig farmer
group with 18 members and system of
share and marketing man in the group
committees
• Provide materials for farmer groups
(scale, office…) Install one marketing
board
• Provide 1 catching cages to Contact
middlemen and updating the price of
pig on weekly basis
• Prepare and sign the Agreement
withmiddleman
• Training marketing man on marketing
18. Cattle Strategy
1. Improvement of cattle health
• Recommend villagers to use VAHWs
service
• De-worm cattle with albendazole
• Vaccinate against FMD for two rounds
• Involve VAHWs in the activities
• Follow up/advise VAHWs on disease
treatment
• Provide diseases treatment of project
cattle
• Inform the villager about the price of vaccines
• Advise VAHWs where to find the good medicine for the
cattle disease treatment
• Advise and follow up the diseases treatment of VAHWs
19. 2. Improvement of cattle production
• Train villagers on feeding of cattle
• Select 11 farmers for cattle fattening
program:
Description of data recorded Figures
Number of cattle 28
Weight before fattening
192.96 Kg
program
visual aspect before fattening 25 % Fat , 3.57 % Medium, 71.42 %
program skinny
duration of fattening program 66 days
Weight after fattening program 205.18 Kg
visual aspect at after fattening 71.43 % Fat , 17.85 % Medium,
10.71% skinny
Average body weigh gain 12.21 Kg/head
quantity of STU distributed/day 4.5 Kg/Head
price at selling date 2,300,000 Riels
quantity of premix Premix: 15 grams/head/day
distributed/day DCP: 15 grams/head/day
20. 3. Improvement of cattle marketing
• Facilitate in creation of one cattle
farmer group with 11 members
• Prepare regulation with marketing man
in the group committees
• Provide materials for farmer groups
(scale, office materials…)
• Install one marketing board
• Contact middleman in Kg. Speu for
selling the cattle and updating the price
of cattle
• Training on marketing by SLPP
marketing unit for marketing man of
the groups
• Facilitate reproduce the UTRS for next
fattening for cattle to be sold
21. Challenges encountered
During the project implementation, challenges encountered included:
• Many reported cases of chicken thefts in the village of Reung Peung
• Artificial insemination of many sows proved to be unsuccessful
• Semen is not available in the target district,
• price of live pig is not good at the moment
• Shortage of rice straws for some beneficiaries for urea-treated straw
• Shortage of good quality of vaccine and veterinary medicines with
appropriate price for chicken strategy lead to some outbreak of ND
• It seemed difficult to have good middlemen for the animal raiser groups
(especially for chicken group).
• It is hard to determine categories of pigs agreed upon between
middlemen and the pig raiser group.
• It is observed that the market price of live pig is not good at the
moment.
