Transformation of Tigray’s Poultry Sub-sector from Subsistence to Profitable Business: Strategic challenges and interventions

Poultry sub-sector is a strategic source of cash income, primary supplier of eggs and meat contributing for food and nutrition security and solving the prevalent children malnutrition and stunting problems (Shapiro et al., 2015, Hagos, 2019). It is best equalizer of women empowerment (Sambo et al., 2015) and also provides good number of job opportunity for youth. Poultry production has been practiced for millennia in Tigray and currently, it is getting attention by both private and public actors because of its overall contributions in helping food security and end poverty. However, this sub-sector has been highly constrained by many factors and it is neither modernized nor became profitable business. Hence, it could not satisfy the existing and future market demands. Therefore, this brief report is extrapolated from available empirical evidences, and outlines strategic bottlenecks and interventions to transform the sub-sector.