training
Tanzania
KUKUA NA KUKU
Together we are stronger Collaboration is important to us, both in the Netherlands and abroad. We therefore regularly head over the borders and enter into cooperations. Sharing know-how and expertise is key. Take the ‘Kukua na kuku’ project in Tanzania in which we are actively involved, for example. The aim of this three-year project is to enhance capacity building throughout the value chain in order to improve the efficiency and quality of production and to increase the demand for poultry products. In doing so, the cluster’s activities will co-create a thriving and competitive poultry sector in Tanzania. A demonstration and training farm has been established in Moshi. The personnel managing the farm have been trained by the participants in the cluster. Furthermore, training courses are offered to various target groups; from technology and farm management to food safety and animal health.
Joining forces At this training facility, we teach various vets from all over Tanzania. “In doing so, we’re providing them with the most important basic know-how,” explains poultry specialist Robert Jan Molenaar. “If they can then maintain that basic level, they’ll be above the national average. In the end, the idea is that they in turn share this know-how with any vets they know.” Robert Jan provided the first training course in December. “This initial course was aimed at animal diseases, symptoms and pathology. Together with fourteen Tanzanian poultry vets, I discussed very interesting cases. The plan is for me to provide a number of other training courses upcoming fall, in which we can go into the subjects in more depth.” The growing poultry sector in Tanzania makes this an extremely interesting and challenging market for GD in which to share our knowledge. This isn’t the first country in which we’ve established such a project, as we also joined forces with external parties in umbrella projects in Ethiopia and Ukraine. We can really make the most of these types of projects by tackling them together with a group of big knowledge partners. Robert Jan Molenaar: “If everyone does what he or she does best, you can really make progress together. And that’s what’s so great about collaboration.”
MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT WWW.DUTCHPOULTRYTANZANIA.COM
Update, April 2020 - 7
