A new large chicken farm to end malnutrition in Ethiopia
21 June 2018
Nutropia Poultry & Feed PLC, one of the largest poultry meat producers in Ethiopia, concluded a deal worth EUR 20 million ($ 23 million) with Agrotop Ltd, an Israel-based construction company specializing in livestock turnkey projects, to build a large scale poultry farm with headquarters in Addis Abeba. The project start is envisaged for 2018. Once completed, the farm will consist of a parent stock rearing farm, a parent stock production farm, six broiler farms, a hatchery, a slaughterhouse and a poultry feed mill and produce 24,000 tonnes of chicken meat per year. The main aim of the project is to end hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia by providing affordable chicken meat.