Egg production:
Malawi receives
a helping hand
A new project aims to improve the living standards
in one of Africa’s poorest countries.
Jackie Linden
Malawi is a relatively small, land-locked
country in eastern Africa. With a
population of around 12 million, it is
one of the continent’s poorest countries. Aside from
chronic poverty, the country has a short history
of democracy and its population has suffered with
corruption, political violence, AIDS, hunger and
only the most basic education. More than 80%
of the population live in rural areas, cultivating
plots of land too small to feed an average family
throughout the year – a situation exacerbated at
times of drought and flood. Around one-third of
the population is
malnourished, and
36% of those over
15 years of age are
illiterate.
Nevertheless,
signs of
improvement
are emerging.
The people are
learning how to
improve their situation through elected government
and improved management of the scarce natural
resources.
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Hope for the future
Project Malawi is a new project, which has been
set up by Sanovo Staalkat Group in co-operation with
charity organisation, DanChurchAid. It will start by
setting up an egg farm, with the aim to produce and sell
eggs to local institutions and in the local market.
Comment from Sanovo Staalkat’s managing director
Sanovo Staalkat Group managing to lack of resources and knowledge.
director, Søren Ring, kindly gave Unfortunately, many African
some exclusive comments to Poultry countries suffer these circumstances,
International on the Malawi project. and we went looking for a project
“The Christmas and New Year where our financial support
holiday period and our activities and know-how would offer the
in the global poultry industry led opportunity to build a poultry
us to consider how we could give complex, starting on a small scale
better support to the sector and but with the intention to expand over
to those with few resources. the coming years. In Africa, there is
We decided to focus our New an almost inexhaustible demand
Year’s wishes and budget towards for cheap and healthy food, and
societies that are active in the poultry eggs seem to be a natural answer to
industry but have little possibility to these problems. The continent has
develop a sustainable business due a very low population of chickens
compared to humans.
In the Group, we see
the possibility to change
this situation whilst
recognising the need
for local understanding
and presence as well as Søren Ring
specific know-how on
how to run an egg-laying facility
in Africa. To start up the project,
we have entered a co-operation
with DanChurchAid, which has a
local presence in Malawi, social
insight and willingness to accept
our product know-how.”
