Sustainable Local Chicken Production : a Model for Better Food and Nutrition Security

About the partnership

Animal Production Related

Kenya

HPK (Homerange Poultry Kenya) is a youth-owned and led business partnership that specializes in the production, sale, and distribution of Improved Indigenous Chicken. Established in 2013 and based in Kiambu County, Kenya, HPK deals with hatching and rearing to facilitate the sale of day and month- old indigenous chick and the slaughter and sale of mature chicken to markets. Moreover, HPK formulates and sells poultry feeds and other related inputs such as feed mixing equipment. In a nutshell, HPK supplies 4800 DOCs monthly to farmers in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, and Zambia, slaughters and sells 1400 ICs monthly, formulates 12.5 tons of poultry feeds monthly and has reached 15000 farmers so far through its weekly and monthly farmer training sessions.

Inclusive business idea description

Through the SLCP Model, the partnership between HPK and 2SCALE will facilitate access to high quality protein for BoP consumers, empower poultry farmers to increase their incomes and promote access to finance and sector development. This will be achieved through breeding and sale of DOCs to 6400 Smallholder Farmers who will raise them through semi-intensive system (free-range plus supplementary feeding), for four to five months and sell. The more nutritious Indigenous Chickens are targeted for the BoP consumers in urban and peri-urban centers around Nairobi.

Key Interventions

Promoting Access to Finance

Empower Poultry Farmers to Increase Income

Facilitating BoP Consumers to Access High Quality Protein

Strengthen Management and Governance of HPK, SLCPM and the Partnership

Promote Sector Development

6,400 (1280 senior women, 1280 senior men, 1920 young women, 1920 young men)

181 MSMEs (58 women-led, senior female- led, 42 senior male-led, 39young female-led, 42young male-led)

Producer organizations involved

Estimated at €866,766- Cash and Kind: Establishment of processing plants, machinery procurement and recruitment of additional staff.

20,224 (6400 SHFs and 13,824 BoP Consumers) in urban and peri-urban areas)

Get in touch

Curious about this partnership? Get in touch with the partnership facilitator.

E-mail Susan Wabocha

Partnership Facilitator

	Susan Wabocha
	swabocha@2scale.org

Project partners

Capital Strategies Kenya Limited

Capital Strategies (K) Ltd is a Business Training and Consultancy firm established in 2006. The firm specializes in offering Training, Business Mentorship & Support, Monitoring and Evaluation services to individuals, Businesses and Organizations in Kenya and the East African Region. As the main Business Service Provider in this partnership, Capital Strategies will conduct the studies to access the markets and the sustainability of HPK and the SLCP Model, give recommendations and embark on capacity building of the cluster actors in business planning and management.

Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KARLO)

A state corporation whose mandate is to restructure agricultural and livestock research into a dynamic, innovative, responsive and well-coordinated system. KARLO will be critical in ensuring the breeds selected to produce eggs for brooding are of required quality. KARLO will also be involved in building capacity of actors along the value chain.

County Governments (Agriculture and Livestock Departments)

The county governments in the Counties of operation (Kiambu, Murang’a, Nyeri, Tharaka Nithi, Laikipia, Kitui, Machakos, Makueni and Kajiado) will be critical in creating a linkage with local small-holder farmers, training and licensing.

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