Korea and Comoros, an island nation off the eastern coast of Africa, have joined forces to enhance bilateral cooperation on the poultry farming business.
The archipelago of Comoros, between Mozambique and Madagascar, is one of the smaller African nations with an area of only 2,235 square kilometers and a population of just under 800,000. Although it is not the most diplomatically active of nations, the island country, this time, has opened its doors to Korea to cooperate on the poultry industry. The two nations are sharing their chicken-raising technologies and breeding and chick-hatching methods, as well as tips on how to construct suitable hatching and incubation facilities.
Poultry experts from Korea and Comoros share the skills and information required in the poultry businesses at a poultry farm in Comoros.
The Rural Development Administration (RDA) offered to its Comoros counterpart, the Agricultural Strategies Bureau of Comoros, 300 copies of a book of guidelines on poultry farming, which it says are the most suitably applicable to farming conditions in the region. The book focuses on information about the ideal conditions under which farmers can raise poultry on a small scale in the most efficient and suitable manner possible. The technologies introduced in the book are perfectly tailored to the region’s environment and to the nation’s economic scale.
The book also covers a variety of information ranging from how to hatch chicks and how to make feed for poultry in an economical manner, like using residual products, through to how to manage poultry farms and how to deal with disease and health controls. The publication aims at helping farmers conduct their business more effectively and systematically. Also, it is written in Comoros’ main language, French.
“We hope that this book will make great contributions to developing the poultry industry in Comoros,” said an official from the Agricultural Strategies Bureau of Comoros as he expressed his gratitude to the RDA for helping to make the publication possible.
Park Su-bong (right), director of the RDA’s stockbreeding resources development service, hands over a copy of a book on poultry farming written in French.
By Sohn JiAe
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: the Rural Development Administration
jiae5853@korea.kr
