Chicken Raising Supported by Community Development Fund
Monday, 19 September 2011
In the last weekend of July, 103 households in Jinjia village, Wanzhou District, Chongqing received 2,297 chickens from HPP’s Farmers’ Clubs Project in Wanzhou.
Jinjia village is one of 4 poverty villages in Puzi Township. One third of the villagers have left the village to find work in cities. There are 1,952 villagers or 438 households in the village, most of which are old people, women and children.
The local farmers were mobilized and organized to establish the farmers’ clubs since May 20, 2011. A Community Development Fund was started up in mid-June with the support of Citi Foundation. Villagers can apply to the fund and the Project Decision Making Group decides which applications the fund will support. All the activities ideas come from the villagers.
Some villagers applied to Community Development Fund for raising chickens by the end of June, because chicken are easy to raise with less investment cost and less growing time. The villagers were helped to contact the chicken dealers and purchased the chicken at a low price after the chicken raising application was approved by the Project Decision Making Group. The Villages got the chickens for the half market price with the support of Community Development Fund. The chicken will be sold at the market price when they are ready for slaughter.
