Acosta Sarai, Chen Ruby, Nhemaphuki Sunita, Khanal Damber, Cadena Myrna, Pitesky Maurice, Erbstein Nancy, Niemeier Deb
Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, MD 20742, USA.
Transl Anim Sci. 2022 Jun 30;6(3):txac071. doi: 10.1093/tas/txac071. eCollection 2022 Jul.
Farmers in Nepal face many of the same global challenges associated with initiating and scaling poultry husbandry as many other developing countries. These include access to innovative approaches in finance, credit, coop design, marketing, and sales. As with most low-income countries, Nepalese poultry farmers also lack adequate training in poultry husbandry including biosecurity. In this paper, we describe a collaborative workshop-subsidy approach to addressing these challenges conducted by a partnership with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Engineering, the School of Education, and a farming co-operative based in the semi-rural area of Bhaktapur, Nepal. The program included two workshops covering aspects of poultry rearing including coop construction, chick rearing, biosecurity, and husbandry. Both workshops were a combination of lectures and hands-on learning. Following completion of the workshops, each farmer received subsidized materials for coop construction and poultry rearing. The co-operative provided training facilities and a market for selling eggs. Despite an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), which affected the scale of program implementation, our results suggest that the workshop subsidy collaborative approach can be successful in reducing market entry barriers. Our 6-mo post-workshop survey showed that two-thirds of the workshop participants ultimately built their own coop and raised chicks. Half of these participants reported market available egg production and a doubling of egg consumption at home.
与许多其他发展中国家一样，尼泊尔的农民在开展和扩大家禽养殖方面面临着许多相同的全球性挑战。这些挑战包括获得金融、信贷、合作社设计、营销和销售方面的创新方法。与大多数低收入国家一样，尼泊尔的家禽养殖户在包括生物安全在内的家禽养殖方面也缺乏足够的培训。在本文中，我们描述了一种由加州大学戴维斯分校兽医学院、工程学院、教育学院以及尼泊尔巴克塔普尔半农村地区的一个农业合作社合作开展的、应对这些挑战的协作式研讨会补贴方法。该项目包括两个研讨会，涵盖家禽饲养的各个方面，包括鸡舍建设、雏鸡饲养、生物安全和养殖管理。两个研讨会都采用了讲座和实践学习相结合的方式。研讨会结束后，每位农民都获得了用于鸡舍建设和家禽饲养的补贴材料。合作社提供了培训设施和鸡蛋销售市场。尽管发生了高致病性禽流感疫情，影响了项目实施的规模，但我们的结果表明，研讨会补贴协作方法在降低市场准入壁垒方面可能会取得成功。我们在研讨会结束6个月后的调查显示，三分之二的研讨会参与者最终建造了自己的鸡舍并饲养了雏鸡。这些参与者中有一半报告称有市场销售鸡蛋，并且家庭鸡蛋消费量翻了一番。
