Towards food security with quality poultry meat

About the partnership

Côte d'Ivoire

Animal Production Related

Status:

Active

This partnership aims to strengthen the distribution channels for concentrated feed, chicks and yellow corn supply chains for poultry farmers, while developing commercial relationships between corn farmers, millers, poultry farmers, slaughterhouses and distributors of poultry products (meat and eggs). Above all, it aims to facilitate access to poultry products in sufficient quantities and of nutritional quality to urban and rural populations, including low-income consumers.

About the business champion

KDS (Koudjis Distribution Society) is a Limited Liability Company (LLC), specialized in the distribution of a wide range of nutritional products for animals and main distributor of the products of the large Dutch company Koudijs de Heus in Ivory Coast. KDS was created in 2009 under the initiative of Mr. KENGNE Beaujeannot and Mr. DEWINTER Allart, both shareholders and managers of the company.

Key interventions

Strengthen the capacity of poultry farmers on good husbandry practices

Train yellow maize farmers on good agricultural practices and encourage them to use appropriate varieties

Promote the introduction of innovations in poultry and yellow maize production

Develop distribution channels for the inclusion of youth and women

Facilitate access to finance for actors