The Ghana Poultry Day and the third Ghana Chicken Festival, is scheduled for the 1st of July , 2023, at the Forecourt of the State House.
Ms Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa, the Founder and Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation has called on Ghanaians to patronize the event and said it will be fun-packed and educative.
‘There will also be new learnings on the nutritional and medicinal values of our poultry as well as skills development Training.’
Ms Akosa told the Ghana News Agency that the idea of the Ghana Chicken and Poultry Festival was borne out of the Livestock, Poultry and Fisheries Trade Show in 2019, to come out with solutions to alleviate the effects of scarcity in the poultry industry.
‘It was in the course of executing the project that we noticed the growing challenges faced by Ghana’s poultry farmers and, in response to that situation, we arrived at the idea of the Ghana Chicken Festival, in collaboration with the then USDA Ghana Poultry Project,’ she said.
‘Not only did we find that Ghana could sufficiently meet her poultry need, but that this could be done with additional health benefits too,’ she said.
Ms Akosa said the local breeds contained Vitamin D and less toxin.
She urged Ghanaians to join the advocacy journey of promoting the local poultry industry and increasing local consumption.
She announced that there will be free Chicken and egg dishes, for all participants
Source: Ghana News Agency