In spite of the numerous projects and policies initiated by successive governments to revamp and scale up the performance of Ghana’s poultry industry, the sector continues to underperform, with industry players fearing that the sector could collapse in future. Over the past decade, the government has initiated at least five separate strategic policies and programmes targeted at building the capacities of local poultry farms to meet the country’s increasing demand for poultry products. They include the Cockerel Project (2009), SADA Guinea Fowl Production Project (2013), Broiler Revitalisation Project (2015), CSIR-ARI ARIBRO Project (2015) and the Livestock Policy and Strategy Document (2016). The Broiler Revitalisation Programme, for instance, was introduced with the intention of reducing poultry imports by 40 per cent. However, the plan flopped. According to the poultry farmers, it was bedevilled with low sales as local producers had to contend with cheap imports. For example, while a...
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