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Layer poultry farming means raising egg laying poultry birds for the purpose of commercial egg production. Layer chickens are such a special species of hens, which need to be raised from when they are one day old. They start laying eggs commercially from 18-19 weeks of age. They remain laying eggs continuously till their 72-78 weeks of age. They can produce about one kg of eggs by consuming about 2.25 kg of food during their egg laying period.
Poultry layer farming is gaining popularity in India due to its lower production cost and growing demand of eggs. India ranks third in the world by producing 3.8 billion kilograms in shell. Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Maharashtra and Punjab are the leading egg producing states in India in the same order. There is a rise in egg production in India owing to the growth in human consumption and lower production costs. Poultry layer farming is given a lot of importance in the national policy owing to which there is a lot of scope of improvement and development.
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1. Poultry Marketing
Pauline Kariuki, Kenya Poultry Farmers Association
FAO-ILRI Regional Training Workshop on Proven Livestock
Technologies
ILRI, Addis Ababa, 3-5 December 2018
2. OUTLINE
• Training Objectives
• General Overview of the Poultry Industry in
Kenya
• Challenges in Production
• Poultry Marketing
• Areas to prioritize in Poultry Marketing
• Marketing Strategies
• Challenges in Marketing
• Role of Farmer Organizations in Poultry
Marketing
• KEPOFA Experience
• Players Involved in the Industry
• Opportunities
• Recommendations
• Key Take Home Lessons
• Conclusion
3. TRAINING OBJECTIVES
• Enhance the participants knowledge with information that will support their farmers in effective
and efficient marketing and profitable business,
• Know the main components of marketing poultry and poultry products,
• Learn the steps involved in implementing marketing strategies,
• Identify the key stakeholders,
4. CONT’D
(TRAINING OBJECTIVES)
• Train other Trainers who will gain the capacity to cascade the training further to other
smallholder farmers,
• Appreciate the relationship of the actors in the value chain,
• Recognize the role and importance of upscaling their production,
• Recognize opportunities and challenges in marketing of poultry and poultry products.
5. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY
IN KENYA
The poultry industry is key in food & nutrition security; offers income and employment
Poultry Production Systems
Can be classified into 3 distinct production systems based on scale, functions, breeds,
husbandry and productivity. FAO has classified based on biosecurity levels at the farm
1. Commercial Intensive
2. Semi Intensive (backyard)
3. Free range (village) - most dominant in Kenya, concentrated in rural areas;
unconfined birds scavenge around homestead and fields
6. CONT’D
(GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY IN KENYA)
Producers in the industry
1. Small Holder Producers -These are the majority in terms of bird population
and mainly producing Indigenous chicken. Broilers and layers are mostly reared
near the urban centers.
2. Large Scale- Mainly contracted by large companies rearing more than 10,000
birds.
7. CHALLENGES IN PRODUCTION
• High mortality rates (attributable to preventable poultry diseases)
• Inadequate supply of indigenous day-old chicks,
• Inadequate credit facilities, -This subsector is mainly donated by women and
youth. These constituencies have no means to securing their loans
• High cost of feed and sometimes poor quality feed-Raw materials are not
available locally
• Limited knowledge on production and management-Extension service is
inadequate
8. POULTRY MARKETING
Marketing is the process of taking your product to the end user
Market facilitation will equip poultry producers with knowledge and skills in order
to enhance commercialization.
Will involve researching;
• What does the consumer want?-Understand consumer preference
• Distribution - How does your product reach the end user?-Timely and quality
maintained
• Promotion - How does the customer know about your product?- You look for the
customer not the customer to look for you
• Pricing - How do you set prices for your products?-Compare with other but remain
profitable
9. AREAS TO PRIORITIZE IN POULTRY MARKETING
Know your market
• Why should your customer buy from you?-Sustain the royalty
Competition
• Who are your competitors?- Understand who else is in the market and their strength
• What is the market trend?- What is selling and what are the scenarios'
• How do you rank against the competition?-Is it likely that the competitor will knock
you out
• Are there any substitutes to your product? Are they a threat?- People could be
changing their eating habits
10. CONT’D
(AREAS TO PRIORITIZE IN POULTRY MARKETING)
Market segment
• What is your market segment?-It is important to know your market segment it helps
increasing your production and monitoring your competitors
Distribution and service delivery
• Why should your customer buy from you?-it is important to focus on your competitor
• Time - Do your customers get their supply on time?-If you are unreliable the customer will
by from your competitor
• Quality - Do your customers quality products?-Understand what your customer want
• Distribution cost - is distribution eating into your profit?-pool transport
• Are you responding to the consumer queries/feedback? - This builds customer loyalty
11. CONT’D
(AREAS TO PRIORITIZE IN POULTRY MARKETING)
Consistency
• Is your supply reliable? Does the customer get the product when needed or as per the
contract? Traders and consumers want to be assured that the products are available when
needed
Visibility
• Promote your products (internet, print and electronic media) Technology is critical in
marketing because most clients are doing their purchases' in the comfort of their homes
Pricing
• How are you pricing your products and what informs the pricing? The prices of the
products should be friendly to the trader and customer but should be based on the
production cost for the producer to make profit.
12. MARKETING STRATEGIES
• Farmgate marketing - Accounts for the majority of products sold by semi-
commercial poultry keepers. –Aggregating will work better for the farmers and
traders will not cover huge distances to pick the products. Prices are reasonable
because there is no transport cost, the transaction cost is low because farmers
and traders rely on regular buying and trust
• Contract marketing - Link rural producers and urban market and offer pre-fixed
prices and quality assurance.
• Broiler contract farmers are contracted by big companies have their chicken
picked up at source. The model can also work for indigenous chicken
13. CHALLENGES IN MARKETING
• Low volumes - inadequate supply of ready birds and eggs,
• Fluctuating market demands – seasonal and unreliable supply,
• Poor marketing infrastructure - bad roads, lack of electricity and cold storage,
• Inadequate credit facilities – financial institutions consider poultry farming high
risk,
• In availability of processing facilities - slaughter slabs and egg processing units,
• Lack of business management skills amongst producers.
14. ROLE OF FARMER ORGANIZATIONS IN POULTRY
MARKETING
• Improving market linkage between farmers groups and traders,
• Collection and provision of information on chicken production,
• Market development and advocacy awareness creation along the value chain
• Link farmers and traders by giving relevant information
• Supporting farmers on access and availability of production inputs and lobbying
for good market prices.
15. KEPOFA EXPERIENCE
• Mobilizing poultry farmers - enable farmers to produce sustainably
• Training on farming as a business (FaaB) – equip the poultry farmers with skills to
market their products.
• Training on organizational development – to address group dynamics because
many groups have a very short life
• Partnered with the government to develop the National Poultry Policy and Draft
Poultry Development Bill-Work closely with the decision makers
16. CONT’D
(KEPOFA EXPERIENCE)
• Developed a manual for production of indigenous chicken – teaches the skills
needed for production and management of indigenous chicken
• Poultry magazines to connect with other actors and advertise - to keep in touch
with members and for communication.
• Creating Poultry Platforms-Responding to the devolved system of government
17. POULTRY COLLECTION CENTRES(PCCs)
(3 PER FACILITY)
POULTRY FACILITY
FARMER GROUPS
(5 GROUPS PER PCC)
350 BIRDS PER GROUP PER DAY
20 TRAYS PER GROUP PER DAY
Functions
PRODUCTIONBULKING
SLAUGHTER,
PROCESSINGAND
WHOLESALING
CONSUMPTION
Enablers
FINANCIALINSTITUTIONS,DLP,DVS,PRIVATEEXTENSIONSERVICEPROVIDERS
1050 CHICKEN PER DAY
60 TRAYS PER DAY
Chain actors
Supermarkets,
hotels
1050 BIRDS PER DAY
60 TRAYS PER DAY
RETAILING
PLAYERS INVOLVED
18. The marketing model is based on a three-tiered system with a single Poultry Products Facility and
three Poultry Products Collection Centres
19. POULTRY PRODUCTS FACILITY
• The Poultry Products Facility (PF) will be the hub of the system. The facility will
consist of a collection area for chickens and eggs, a slaughter facility, a processing
area for packaging, a shipping area and inputs such as vaccines and feed.
• Cold storage facilities will ensure biosecurity. The development and maintenance
of these markets will be key to the success of each PF. The facility will receive
support in developing brands and marketing those brands to consumers. An
identification system will be developed so that each farmer group becomes
responsible for the quality of their product. Training for each farmer group will be
important to this function.
20. POULTRY PRODUCTS COLLECTION CENTRES
• Poultry Products Collection Centres (PCs) are the next hierarchy of the facilities to
be developed to provide the raw materials for the PFs.
• Each PC will have facilities for administration, egg collection, live chicken
collection, vaccine storage and distribution, day-old-chicks reception, storage and
distribution as well as other services as needed.
21. FARMER GROUPS
• The farmers will aggregate their production in groups and form working
agreements with the PCs for supply of chickens and eggs and supply of other
support services.
• The vision for these agreements is to establish a 4 month cycle for indigenous
chickens with each farmer’s growing cycle being properly staggered.
• Business skills, biosecurity and poultry management among others will be topics
for training.
22.
23. OPPORTUNITIES
Despite the challenges faced, there are opportunities that make poultry rearing
attractive.
In Kenya, per capita poultry meat and egg consumption stands at 0.65kg-3kg meat
and 36 eggs. The is way below the World Health Organization (WHO)
recommendation of (182) eggs and 12kg poultry meat per Year
• Increased demand of poultry products-When accessible and affordable
• Low start-up capital and requires less space compared to other livestock
• Indigenous chicken rearing is not labor intensive and are resistant to most poultry
diseases
24. CONT’D
(OPPORTUNITIES)
• Increased economic growth - people will have the purchasing power
• Investment in processing infrastructure, cold storage and transport systems
• Smallholder chicken farming is mainly undertaken by women and the youth
• Cross cutting issues are adequately addressed in the poultry value chain, giving
opportunities to Women, Youth, People living with HIV/AIDS, People living with
disabilities and orphans
25. RECOMMENDATIONS
To enhance production of poultry there’s need to create awareness on the importance of the sector in
securing household food and nutrition security. There is need to;
• Train and facilitate production of indigenous chicken-This is the chicken of choice as most become
health conscious
• Lower production costs will make poultry and poultry products affordable
• Encourage farmers to form cooperatives –This will give famers bargain power. Institutional
strengthening for farmer organizations
• Address poultry feed supplementing ( not scavenging) by introducing appropriate feed ensuring a
balanced diet to increase numbers
• Develop reliable quality assurance programs for all hatcheries and multiplication farms to cushion
farmers against losses-Launched in Kenya
26. CONT’D
(RECOMMENDATIONS)
• Establish collective marketing of poultry products
• Establish markets and slaughterhouses specializing in the processing of both
indigenous and exotic chicken
• Improve the extension services rendered to poultry farmers rearing indigenous
chicken
• Financing the sub-sector by mainstream financial institutions and others
• Popularize consumption of poultry products in collaboration with media to
disseminate information- there is a lot of misinformation especially on eggs(print
electronic social media, exhibitions
• County governments to prioritize poultry farming and finance
27. KEY TAKE HOME LESSONS
• We will not market effectively when fragmented or individually-We have to be
consistent in supply and quality. We can only do this in synchronized production
system
• There is huge potential to tap into by exploiting the niche market that we have
• Think value addition-Value addition gives the producer premium prices
28. CONCLUSION
• Marketing should be critically considered by industry players as an important
aspect of the poultry business and lobby
• Build the capacity of farmers to effectively coordinate, monitor and participate in
the market-
• Facilitate the small holder farmers’ access to viable markets for indigenous
chicken and eggs.
Editor's Notes
Poultry production in Kenya can be classified into three distinct production systems based on scale, functions, breeds, husbandry and productivity.
Under this classification poultry production systems are conventionally referred to as the commercial intensive, semi intensive or backyard and the free range or village poultry production systems.
Indigenous poultry (Free range) production is the dominant production system in Kenya and is mainly concentrated in the rural areas. This system is characterized by unconfined birds that scavenge around the homestead and in the fields.
The Kenyan poultry industry comprises both small-scale and large-scale producers. Small-scale producers form being the majority in terms of bird population.
The industry is an important in food and nutrition security and a key source of livelihoods’ source of food, income and employment.