📋 Tender Overview
Activity Id:
218561
Project Number:
72REFS24LA00001
Implementing Partner:
University of Florida
Activity Start Date:
N/A
Activity End Date:
2029-09-30
Country:
World
Country Code:
WLD
Region:
World
Funding Agency:
U.S. Agency for International Development
Managing Agency:
U.S. Agency for International Development
Fiscal Year:
2024
Current Dollar Amount:
$1,000,000
International Sector:
Agriculture
USG Sector:
Agriculture
Description:
The main goal is to increase the productivity and enhance Newcastle Disease resistance of indigenous poultry breeds in Ghana and Tanzania through genetic improvement, business planning, and capacity strengthening of poultry value chain actors. The objectives of the project are to: Enhance Newcastle disease resistance in indigenous chickens using genomic selection breeding techniques. Create an inclusive business plan to market and distribute Newcastle disease-resistant poultry products to local smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Strengthen the capacity of local research institutions, community animal health workers, poultry breeders, smallholder poultry farmers, and others in the poultry sector to continue genomic selection research, breeding, and caretaking of improved poultry stock.
