How CASA and Amazon Poultry Limited are working together
Project title: Stimulating SME interest in investing in outgrower schemes/contract farming
CASA supported Amazon Poultry to invest in and implement a poultry outgrower model with smallholders. £420,000 of funding was secured f a combination of loans and grants. The project set out to demonstrate the viability of the poultry outgrower model, initially to increase 100 farmers’ incomes, and attract new investment in the model
CASA work complete: June 2022
Total cost of technical assistance package: £85,022 (£56,990 provided by CASA)
Achievements
100 smallholder farmers
trained and contracted
£200,000
loan facility from a bank
Investment required
£3.25 million
to expand the feed mill, develop a hatchery unit, and provide working capital
