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...