ABOUT OUR PRODUCTS-LOCAL CHICKENS

We produce and sell health and natural products such as Indigenous/Local chickens, Mushrooms, Fruits and other vegetables.

why this products?

Traditional/indigenous/Local Chickens

In Tanzania Agriculture as whole contribute 30% to National Growth Domestic Product (NGDP). Chickens contribute 16% of livestock NGDP, 3% of Agriculture NGDP, and 1% of NGDP. This contribution of chickens to the national economy is significant though need to be enhanced.

Local chickens have several social-economic roles such as nutrition-meat and eggs are source of good quality and rich animal protein, food security, and source of household’s income-money for needs such as school fees, uniforms, medical treatment and a like.

Though local chickens are slow grower and poor layers of small sized eggs, its tropical adaptability, disease resistance and preference given to meat and eggs produced by the local indigenous birds both in rural areas and in the cities they are potential in the society. Consumers prefer slow growing meat-type quality chickens and are willing to pay more in order to get indigenous meat and eggs. Although the meat and eggs produced by native birds are more expensive than those produced by commercial broilers or layers the latter are still beyond the purchasing power of the rural poor, who continue to rely on their own native birds for subsistence. On other, hand quality chickens are generally produced by direct use of native chickens breed, which are generally slow growing with poor feed conversion. The sustained use of native chickens in the traditional or family poultry production system showed the need to consider the value of native chickens.

Hertu Farms rear the same local chickens commercially, to exploit their genetic and socio-economic potential which has not been fully exploited. We produce indigenous meat and eggs in high quality and quantity to meet a high demand for local chickens and products in urban and peri-urban areas.

We bring into attention to key players society on potential of the local chickens, since the they play substantial roles in the house hold and national economy; we to address many challenges facing the sector for the traditional poultry/chickens industry to move into large scale commercial production.

Through our hands on experience from our project; we provide training to farmers on optimal chicken husbandry to create a room for increasing productivity, and maximize the use of existing genetic diversity by improving current level of production in indigenous fowl. This will helps the sustainable use of existing genotypes that had adopted to the production environment in which they are maintained as in the recent past there is a little growing concern to conserve biodiversity and to evaluate potential value of indigenous chicken not only for current but also for future unforeseen uses.