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Georgina Akunuba, a livestock farmer in Anambra State, is the CEO of Progress Agric Venture. She owns a poultry, a fish farm, and a piggery. She started the business 23 years ago., is the CEO of Progress Agric Venture. She owns a poultry, a fish farm, and a piggery. She started the business 23 years ago.I love birds. When I was younger, my parents bought local fowl as gifts for my siblings and me. I loved to have them around.
It’s essential to acknowledge that news production incurs expenses, and we take pride in never placing our stories behind a prohibitive paywall. A bag of feed is between N12,000 to N15,000, If you have about 200 birds that means they will feed on a bag every day. So let’s say for six weeks you will spend over N500,000 just to feed them. So how much will you sell the birds or the eggs? How about drugs, water, maintenance and labour?I have lost so many eggs because of the weather and I can’t store the eggs for long. if the government assists us with storage facilities for eggs because people are losing so much and selling at unfair prices.
Mrs Akuniba: Well, we get support from the state government, although it is small and also the Bank of Agriculture has been helpful.
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