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Aishatu an Poultry Entrepreneur

As an economic growth driver, the Nigerian Government envisions transforming agriculture as a sustainable and profitable sector with technology transfer for economic and food security. Nigeria has almost 50 percent of the female population, most under 30, with prevalent inequalities and poverty in the North-East. With no basic understanding of poultry farming, Aishatu, 30, a diploma holder, is now in her 9th set of poultry farm production. From raising just 2-3 chicks, she now makes a profit of ₦35,000 (US$85) per month, enough to support her family, paying her daughter Rukaya's school fees, and helping her aged parent's medication. Trained under Feed the Future Nigeria's Integrated Agriculture Activity program on poultry management, good care, nutritious feed, and medication, Aishatu is now a proud poultry business owner with over 100 broiler chickens and five turkeys. Before this, she was engaged in sachet water hawking in the streets of Yola, in the Adamawa state of Nigeria, just to make ends meet and often got exposed to dangerous activities. 

Sachet Water Hawking to Poultry Enterprise: Aishatu Life Changed from Enterprise Training

Photographer Kashinath Vajpai
Copyright © 2021 Integrated Agriculture Activity

Country Nigeria

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