Although being the main bottlenecks for commercial poultry development in Togo,
feeding and management practices retain little attention. Indeed, there is no
proficient feed miller unit which can provide high quality feed according to the
needs of the farmers. This is due to a lack of information on nutrition and
relevant management tools or people trained as poultry farm managers. With the
aim to alleviate poverty and hunger in Togo, an inter-university project
[Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and University of Lome (UL)] as a model for
poultry development was being run from June 2006 to May 2012. Specific
objectives of the project are 1) to provide insights and disseminate guidelines
and information on adapted methods to improve poultry production and 2) to focus
on development of new technologies in poultry production and implementation of
research on better poultry nutrition, feeding and management practices.