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Business News of 2014-10-15
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Poultry Farmers Association (PFA), Mr Victor Oppong Adjei, has made a passionate appeal to the government and financial institutions to create the enabling environment for poultry farmers to access funds to enhance productivity.
He said lack of access to credit was the major challenge confronting the industry and called for action to save the industry from possible collapse.
Mr Adjei made the call after leading hundreds of poultry farmers to march through the principal streets of Kumasi to celebrate Ghana’s maiden participation in the annual World Egg Day last Friday.
The celebration, which was on the theme: “An egg a day keeps you away from the doctor,” was organised by the Ashanti regional branch of the PFA in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA).
The World Egg Day is celebrated to help raise the awareness of the benefits of eggs.
The International Egg Commission (IEC), which spearheaded the celebration of the day, was established at the second International Egg Conference held in Bologna, Italy in 1964.
During the celebration in Kumasi, the poultry farmers presented hundreds of free boiled eggs to residents to remind them of the need to eat an egg daily.
The march, which lasted for about an hour, started from the Kumasi Jubilee Park through to the Kumasi Post Office Square where the leadership addressed the members.
Some of the placards the PFA members carried had inscriptions such as “egg is good for your health”, “think food, think egg”, “egg contains choline which is good for your body”, “egg is a complete food” among others.
The consumption of eggs in the country is said to be among the lowest in the world as the average Ghanaian takes 12 eggs a year.
Mexico has the highest egg consumption in the world with an average of 340 eggs per person, while in India, 284 eggs are eaten per person per year.
The Ashanti regional Secretary of the Poultry Farmers Association, Mr Kwame Agyemang, described as very low the egg consumption in the country and advised Ghanaians to increase their intake of eggs.
He described as erroneous the perception that egg had high level of cholesterol and stated that the cholesterol in egg was good.
Business News of 2014-10-15
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Poultry Farmers Association (PFA), Mr Victor Oppong Adjei, has made a passionate appeal to the government and financial institutions to create the enabling environment for poultry farmers to access funds to enhance productivity.
He said lack of access to credit was the major challenge confronting the industry and called for action to save the industry from possible collapse.
Mr Adjei made the call after leading hundreds of poultry farmers to march through the principal streets of Kumasi to celebrate Ghana’s maiden participation in the annual World Egg Day last Friday.
The celebration, which was on the theme: “An egg a day keeps you away from the doctor,” was organised by the Ashanti regional branch of the PFA in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA).
The World Egg Day is celebrated to help raise the awareness of the benefits of eggs.
The International Egg Commission (IEC), which spearheaded the celebration of the day, was established at the second International Egg Conference held in Bologna, Italy in 1964.
During the celebration in Kumasi, the poultry farmers presented hundreds of free boiled eggs to residents to remind them of the need to eat an egg daily.
The march, which lasted for about an hour, started from the Kumasi Jubilee Park through to the Kumasi Post Office Square where the leadership addressed the members.
Some of the placards the PFA members carried had inscriptions such as “egg is good for your health”, “think food, think egg”, “egg contains choline which is good for your body”, “egg is a complete food” among others.
The consumption of eggs in the country is said to be among the lowest in the world as the average Ghanaian takes 12 eggs a year.
Mexico has the highest egg consumption in the world with an average of 340 eggs per person, while in India, 284 eggs are eaten per person per year.
The Ashanti regional Secretary of the Poultry Farmers Association, Mr Kwame Agyemang, described as very low the egg consumption in the country and advised Ghanaians to increase their intake of eggs.
He described as erroneous the perception that egg had high level of cholesterol and stated that the cholesterol in egg was good.
