The Women In Poultry Value Chain (WIPVaC), in conjunction with the West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP), is organising a Chicken Road Show to mark its 8th anniversary celebrations this week.
The event, which would be held on Tuesday 29th April 2025 within the enclave of the Ministries, at the forecourt of CLOGSAG Headquarters (Accra), would entail free public sampling of hot, tasty nutritious grilled chicken, a news brief said.
It said there would also be promotional sale of fresh, frozen, and homegrown chicken at off-market affordable prices, with great music.
Women In Poultry Value Chain is an umbrella organisation that seeks to bring together all women along the poultry value chain for common interests.
It comprises aggregators of maize and soya, day-old chicks suppliers, dealers in poultry inputs such as fishmeal, concentrates, poultry drugs and poultry feed, poultry farmers, egg sellers, distributors of chicken and guinea fowl, and processors of poultry products.
Their goal is to create new opportunities for women along the poultry value chain to stimulate developments for the benefit of society.
WIPVaC is a beneficiary of MOFA-FSRP’s Poultry Intensification Scheme (PIS), which commenced last year, under which they took delivery of input credit comprising day-old-chicks, feeds, vaccines and training for broiler production.
Their first cycle of production under the scheme is currently in the completion stage and ready for the market.
Ms Emelda Adii, Gender Focal Person of FSRP, told the GNA that the project was reviving collapsed farms and businesses.
She said the intervention was to ensure that women were able to take care of their families and help fight the impact of climate change.
Madam Victoria Norgbe, WIPVaC President, said the project, an input credit, was helping to reduce the challenges members of the Association faced in looking for day old chicks and other resources to manage the business.
She said the Road Show would promote eating of Ghana chicken and grow the local economy.
During the National Farmers Day Exhibitions and celebrations late last year, FSRP mounted a similar Chicken Road Show at the Efua Sutherland Children’s Park, during which visitors to the exhibition grounds were treated with hot, tasty, nutritious grilled homegrown chicken.
FSRP is a Government of Ghana project being implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, sponsored by the World Bank and coordinated by ECOWAS.