From the Field

The WPF staff had the opportunity to visit poultry producers in the Morogoro Region in Tanzania (196 kg west of Dar es Salaam).  The team visited several villages where Mother Units (also known as Brooding Units) were growing Sasso birds to 28 days and then selling them to neighboring farmers and villages.  ...

Penye nia pana njia is a Swahili saying which means “when there is a willing there is a way”. Prisca John resides in a famous village called Mdaula besides the main road heading to Dodoma, the capital city of Tanzania. The town is very close to Chalinze town, 110 kilometers away ...

While visiting in Nigeria, World Poutlry Foundation CEO, Randall Ennis, and others had the opportunity to go visit with mother units and smallholder farmers in the rural villages. While in Nigeria, they traveled to the Ilesa community in Osun State and the Igangan village in Ogun State. They saw first-hand ...

A travel note from Randall Ennis, CEO of World Poultry Foundation: On my last visit to Nigeria, I had the opportunity to go to several villages to talk with farmers and observe the Noiler bird under field conditions. During our visit, we stopped ain the villages of Abatan, Alapako, and ...

A travel note from Randall Ennis, CEO of World Poultry Foundation: On my latest visit to Tanzania, I had the opportunity to observe a marketing awareness and messaging to a women’s group in the Pwani village in Tanzania. The presentation was about the value of dual-purpose birds in the ...

Travel Note: January 30-31 2019 Randall Ennis and Johan van Arendonk, Chief Technology Officer and Director of Breeding Operations from Hendrix Genetics, met in Kolkata (Calcutta) India on in January 2019 to visit with smallholder farmers to review the Kuroiler performance under harsh conditions. The Kuroiler adapts and performs exceptionally well under ...

A travel note from Randall Ennis, CEO of World Poultry Foundation: On December 7, 2018, I went with Korede Afolabi and his team from Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery to visit with smallholder farmers in the villages of Ayegunle and Alouge in the Ogunmakin region of Nigeria. We had the opportunity to meet ...

In our latest trip to Tanzania, the World Poultry Foundation CFO, Gordon Gossett, went with me to get a first-hand view of the African Poultry Multiplication Initiative project and to meet with all of our partners. During this trip, we visited many rural farmers around Iringa, Njombe, and Dar es ...