Rural livelihood and biosecurity of smallholder poultry producers and poultry value chain
The nutritional knowledge and practical skills of small scale farm holders must be improved in
order to ensure that PNG can take advantage of the benefits of aquaculture. An increase in this
knowledge base will also directly benefit other agricultural industries reliant on the feeding of
stock such as the rapidly expanding poultry industry. These needs have been addressed in a three
day Feed Manufacturing Workshop funded by the Australian Centre for International
Agricultural Research (ACIAR). The workshop consisted of a series of nutritional seminars and
practicals that were based on modifications of lecture material presented at the ATSE Crawford...
