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Discussion about entry: Rural farmers Empowerment in Value addition and Marketing
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Dear Margaret Ikiara
>Provision of protein for a family through out the year
>by giving chicken or rabbit at US$ 5,
http://www.cifordkenya.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=...
When a donor gives US$5.00 (about 350 Ksh), what is your scheme of action and support to a family that is given a rabbit ?
What does a rabbit cost ?
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regards
Jacky Foo, Globetree, Sweden
Program Officer (Environment and Sustainable Development)
Hi Jack,
Thanks for having time to visit our website. With US$ 5. It will provide money to purchase the rabbits for the families. We encourage community participation in project implementation. This will enhance the sustainability and project ownership. The beneficiaries are supposed to construct the rabbit cage using the locally available materials. We bring on board the government extensionist to train to enable the continuity of the project even after the period.
A good breed of rabbits like the flemish giant, new zealand white and chinchilla will go for between ksh 250-.400
Thank you
Margaret
Hi Margaret
I understand CIFORD Kenya has activities in Meru
>They can use the rabbit meat as a source of animal protein
>and also they can sell to neighbours for agro income.
>This enables the families to keep their children in school
>and generally have better nutrtion and living conditions
how much can one earn when selling an adult rabbit (to neighbours) ?
>With US$ 5. It will provide money to purchase the rabbits for the families.
>The beneficiaries are supposed to construct the rabbit cage
>using the locally available materials. .....
>A good breed of rabbits like the flemish giant, new zealand white
>and chinchilla will go for between ksh 250-.400
5 US$ would then basically buy 1 rabbit.
Do you have a success rabbit story ?
thanks
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regards
Jacky Foo
Hi Jacky,
Sure CIFORD Kenya is working in Meru area ( Tigania District).
1. how much can one earn when selling an adult rabbit (to neighbours) ? Selling to Neighbours, one rabbit goes for between Kes 100 to Kes 150. and the young ones are bought at 50 to 100 depending on the bargaining of the parties involved.
5 US$ would then basically buy 1 rabbit. The project has been aimed at upgrading the local breeds of the rabbits which are mainly said to be for boys. Once the local breeds are upgraded it will be easy for the farmers to sell to the neighbours and any other interested people.
Best regards
Margaret
Do you have a success rabbit story ? We have a programme with women group on the rabbit keeping and they are keeping the local Rabbits breeds. We are encouraging the members to buy local breeds so that we will start the upgrading. In the project we have been promoting the local consumption of the rabbit meat and we are focusing on the local hotels for the rabbit consumption including the hotels in the Meru National Park.
I can say the project is registering success as we have been able to convince the women that the rabbits are not only for boys. The rabbits supplement the family income
Thank you
Margaret
Margaret wrote:
>we have been promoting the local consumption of the rabbit meat
>and we are focusing on the local hotels for the rabbit consumption
>including the hotels in the Meru National Park
Have your women groups sold rabbits to local hotels and those in Meru National Park ?
Do they sell them live or as dressed meat ?
How much are the women group get from these hotels ?
I have some friends in Marima and Ndekero (http://www.globetree.org/africa/rabbit-net/contact-us.htm) who will find your hotel contacts very useful. They may have a few adult rabbits that they may need to get rid off in order to keep their numbers down.
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regards
Jacky Foo
>We have a programme with women group on the rabbit keeping
I find this programme interesting.
How many women are currently involved in this programme ?.
How many rabbits would a family normally keep ?
>We are encouraging the members to buy local breeds
I am not sure what you mean by local breeds ? Can you elaborate ?
Do you have rabbits that are indigenous in Kenya ?
Are these the "wild" rabbits ?
>A good breed of rabbits like the flemish giant, new zealand white
>and chinchilla will go for between ksh 250-.400
My contacts in Marima sell adults of NZ and California whites at 200 Ksh each.
Mr. Robert Kithinji (0725705308) Muthambi Girls High School, Marima
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Jacky Foo
http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/20304
Dear Jacky,
The rabbits are very effecient for the families as their reproductive cycle is relatively short and thus the farmers can have many rabbits in a year. They can use the rabbit meat as a source of animal protein and also they can sell to neighbours for agro income. This enables the families to keep their children in school and generally have better nutrtion and living conditions
Margaret
Dear Ikiara
This is a good initiative to address the problems facing the rural farming communities in developing countries. I can see the initiative will address thevalue addition and marketing by the producers unlike where we leave the value additional and marketing to middlemen.
Will the farmers be empowered to access the regional and international Market? Some of the people do know our traditional foods, How will you address this issue?
Mukami
Dear Mukami,
Thanks for your comment.
The target has started with the local market within the community. With the progress and other partners coming on board, we are sure of reaching the regiona and international markets through the promotions. We will do a lot of promotion of the products and the nutrtional value of the same to those who donot know some of the foods.
Thank you
Margaret
Hi Margaret,
You mention that for now you are encouraging participants to market their traditional crops locally. Do they sell to their neighbors mainly or must they still find transportation to a local market? Is transportation of their crops a barrier? Are your participants selling a large portion of their crops or are they growing crops mainly for their family's own consumption?
Thanks for the clarification!
Stephanie
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Stephanie Marienau
Ashoka Africa Team Associate
Featured Commentator
Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for your comments and having time to go through our innovation. We have been encouraging and training the farmers on the value addition of the traditional crops eg sweet potatoes, yams, cassava and cereals. They have also been growing grain amaranth and processing the products. The farmers have been selling among the neighbours and the neighbouring villages including the local market places. They have not been able to reach out to far off markets due to the challanges in the transportation and availability of processing equipments. For the time being we have not been in a position to reach the larger market which is due to lack of processing equipments to enable a break even in the project.Since the farmers are using the basic and available equipments at the household level.
We can not really say that what we are processing is for the family only but also we have a majority of farmers selling their products locally.
How ever we are mobilising the resources to enable the farmer groups acquire value addition equipments
Thanks
Margaret
Hi Margaret,
thats a good innitiative.but with the tradition food crops taking longer to grow,have you faced any resistance from the community as you were introducing the innitiative?and how did you handle it?
regards,
Araikia
Thanks for your comment. We have the traditional growing in the community and the community understand that this is the best food only there has not been much attetion to the research and value addition of these food crops .
Thank you
Ikiara
Thanks for your comment. We have the traditional growing in the community and the community understand that this is the best food only there has not been much attetion to the research and value addition of these food crops .
Thank you
Ikiara