This weekly post shines a light on a handful of stories from Heifer.org’s “From the Field”
section.
Heifer International’s projects around the world differ in many ways, but training is an element they have in common. Training on topics such as livestock raising, marketing and gender and family focus is often the spark that drives project participants to create farms and businesses that are innovative, lucrative and inspiring.
Pa Phoeuk with her pigs in Cambodia
In Cambodia, Pa Phoeuk applied swine-raising skills she learned and fattened a piglet to 304 pounds in just five months. She sold the pig and bought three more piglets to expand her swine production.
Project participants in Peru are using information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially online resources, such as social networking, to strengthen capacity and access new markets.
Milk cooperative members in Ukraine put their training to work and opened the country’s first smallholder farmer-owned milk processing plant. Being directly involved with processing and marketing is sure to increase their incomes.
Families in Tanzania have used innovative training techniques to make life better, including turning to camels for milk when raising cattle is no longer an option and transforming a small plot of land into an organic farming system.
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I am impressed at the weight of the pig.
I raise local pigs which on average, after six months, weigh only 20 kilos or 44 lbs.
Where do I get piglets for this breed?
Thank you.
If you are in the Philippines, you can avail of any pig or piglet anywhere even from ordinary backyard raisers. The Animal Industry have been successful in improving the breed of pigs. It is only in the way of feeding and the proper kind of feed that determines the weight of the animal. Because the pig has simple stomach, consider giving it feeds that has more protein, with carbohydrates with less fiber .
Wealth is of the heart and mind.
Not the pocket
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Thanks, all, for your comments. ‘Training and Education’ is one of Heifer’s 12 Cornerstones for Just and Sustainable Development, a methodology that is exercised in every Heifer International project. As Pa Phoeuk shared in her story, the implementation of animal husbandry techniques she learned from training facilitated by Heifer Cambodia staff resulted in healthier pigs. Pa Phoeuk learned the effectiveness of high-protein feed, proper shelter, clean water and vaccinations, and when she put these lessons into practice, her family’s life quickly improved.
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