Amo Farm alleviates poverty with Noiler bird initiative

…partners Edo State

 

In a bid to empower and improve the living standards of rural women in Nigeria, Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Limited has resolved to fight poverty in the country through its noiler bird initiative.

The noiler bird is a natural cross breeding process of layers, boilers with the local birds carried out by Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Limited.

The initiative is to help reduce poverty among rural women and malnutrition in children through the rearing of the noiler birds for consumption and egg production with fewer resources.

“We started to think about the noiler initiative six years ago on what we can do to as a company improve the wellbeing and empower average Nigerians in the rural areas who do not have enough food to feed themselves and their children properly,” said Ayoola Oduntan, group managing director, Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Limited during a recent address to journalist.

“The noiler bird is a dual purpose bird that grows quickly like the boiler but not as quickly, and lay many eggs like the layers but not as many, but most importantly it would survive the backyard environment on less resources,” Oduntan said.

He noted that the noiler birds cheap to rear because of its ability to feed on remnants from the kitchen and farms. It can lay four times the number of eggs the local birds lay and can grow two and half times bigger.

Poultry feed constitutes 70 percent of farmers expenses in running a poultry business in the country.

Recently, the UN warned that 1.4 million children suffering from severe acute malnutrition could die this year, owing to famine in Northern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

With the noiler initiative, agric stakeholders said the issue of malnutrition and famine in the northern region can be addressed, calling on go the government to key into the initiative by partnering with the farm on the initiative.

The Farm has already partnered with the first lady of Edo State to supply noiler birds to women in the rural communities of the state in an effort by the state government to tackle poverty.

The initiative will also help the country achieve one of the key targets of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.