Anambra opens largest Poultry Farm in the SouthEast Region

Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano has inaugurated the completed first phase of Lynden Farms at Igbariam in Anambra East Council Area of the state.
The Farm which is to produce high quality eggs and poultry meat, whose groundbreaking ceremony was performed by Governor Obiano in January last year, is to be executed in three phases with a total investment put at 180 million dollars.

One year after, the first phase has been completed, a double-deck facility housing 100,000 chicks with automated feeding and waste disposal processes, expected to produce 2,500 crates of egg per day.
Inaugurating the facility, Governor Obiano said in less than two years his administration has surpassed the poultry needs of Anambra people through its strategic partnerships with the private sector and efforts at supporting existing poultry operators in the State.
He pointed out that the beauty of the project is that the entire maize that will be used in producing the feeds which chicks at the farm will consume, will be produced in the State adding that the development opens a new vista of opportunity for farmers in the maize who he said his administration will support to boost their production.
The governor commended the investor for heeding his administration's clarion call to bring his wealth home and called on other wealthy Anambrarians to invest in the State, assuring them of a conducive investment climate in the State.
In his remarks, the Chairman of ANSIPPA and traditional ruler of Umuoji, Igwe Cyril Enweze said of all the 9 ongoing Agric projects embarked on by the present administration, the farm is the largest and is the first of such to be completed and put to use in the entire SouthEast region and hailed the public private partnership model of the Obiano administration through which it is placing the state state on the nation's Agricultural map.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mechanization Processing and Export, Mr Afam Mbanefo who noted that at full capacity, the farm will be producing 22,500 Crates of egg per day with other ancilliary benefits, said the achievement of the first phase of the project marks a major milestone in the efforts of the present administration to make the state a pace-setter in agricultural development and food security.
The Chairman of Lyden Farms, Chief Clems Nwogbo revealed that aside the two layer houses that they will construct in the next two phases, they are also doing feedmill, broiler production houses and establishing outgrower schemes for the production of egg and broilers in the 21 Council areas of the state and commended Governor Obiano for his passion at attracting sustainable development which he noted, had motivated them to put their money down in the state.
Facility tour of the farm as well as its official commissioning by the governor formed the highpoints of the event.