TİKA launches new broiler manufacturing mission in Somalia

SOMALIA – The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Company (TİKA) has launched the “Breeding Broiler Manufacturing Venture” in Somalia, geared toward reducing the nation’s reliance on imported hen meat.

This mission is a continuation of efforts began in 2020, underneath the “Venture for Growing Layer Poultry Farming in Somalia,” a collaboration between TİKA and Zamzam College’s Anatolian College of Agriculture.

As a part of that earlier initiative, a poultry home and hatchery have been established on the college. In 2023, additional enlargement passed off with the creation of a Feed Manufacturing Middle at Metropolis College’s College of Agriculture in Mogadishu.

The most recent section of this system, the “Breeding Broiler Manufacturing Venture,” focuses on bettering home broiler manufacturing in Somalia.

It goals to spice up self-sufficiency in hen meat and assist the broader livestock business within the nation.

In 2022, Somalia imported US$20 million price of poultry meat, rating because the 118th largest poultry importer globally.

Poultry meat was additionally the forty ninth most imported product within the nation.

The first sources of imported hen have been Brazil, supplying US$5.85 million, the United Arab Emirates with US$5.24 million, Turkey at US$4.78 million, america with US$2.14 million, and Ukraine contributing US$1.46 million.

Between 2021 and 2022, Turkey, Brazil, and the UAE noticed probably the most vital progress in poultry exports to Somalia, with Turkey growing by US$2.67 million, Brazil by US$2.13 million, and the UAE by US$1.59 million.

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Company (TİKA), a division underneath Turkey’s Ministry of Tradition and Tourism, focuses on growth cooperation in over 150 nations.

In Africa, that is simply one of many a number of initiatives they’ve throughout Africa.

The corporate lately supported ongoing initiatives by supporting a fishermen’s cooperative in Niger.

The company equipped important tools and equipment to the cooperative and carried out renovations to its constructing.

As a part of its “Guichet Distinctive 3A” initiative, TİKA launched a mission geared toward aiding the Tcharga Fisheries Cooperative.

This mission addresses the necessities of fish farms overseen by Niger’s Ministry of Hydraulics, Sanitation, and Surroundings within the capital, Niamey, and surrounding areas.