As part of the programme, Cargill has donated a teaching farm stocked with 500 local Ayam Kampung Super (AKAS) day-old chickens.
Students from Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Agri Insani, a vocational school in Indonesia, will be the first to benefit from a 90-day programme on how to develop and manage poultry farms.
The farm is fully equipped with tools including eating and drinking containers, temperature-controlled chicken cages and Cargill-supplied chicken feed.
During the programme, Cargill experts closely mentor students as they learn how to raise the local chickens from hatchlings till they are harvest-ready. Students are also tutored in farm business management, where they learn skills such as profit and loss calculation, feed efficiency and capital management.
Akkarit Boontawee, managing director of Cargill Feed and Nutrition Indonesia, said: “Our intent is to support Indonesia’s smallholder farmers by helping to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of farming practices. Every year, we commit 1% of our annual earnings towards smallholder farmer training and rural development programmes to give back to the communities where we live, work and do business. We hope that by training the young students of Agri Insani in the techniques of modern breeding, they will leave the programme well equipped to support and contribute towards the growth of Indonesia’s chicken farming industry.”
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