PROJECT TITLE:

Facilitating Green Agriculture on Chicken Egg Farming: Treatment of Manure, Efficient Use of Natural Resources, Renewable Energy and Decreasing Waste in FEED Production Process

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The global objective of this grant scheme is to support improved access to and competitiveness on the national and international markets for Kosovo's agri-rural goods and services.

LOCATION:

Pojate, Ferizaj

SECTOR:

Agriculture

DURATION:

24 months (02/01/2020: – 01/31/2022)

VALUE:

Total: 498,884€ ; EU contribution (60.13%):

BENEFICIARIES:

Target group: BMI Agroprodukt SH.P.K. owners, 6 current employed staff and 7 new employees’ investment, construction companies and other suppliers; Final beneficiaries: egg consumers, farmers in the plant primary production through using as fertilisers pelleted manure, input dealers, meat processing industry, retailers, wholesalers, local tax authorities, mitigation environment pollution etc.

PROJECT PURPOSES:

With this investment the company intends to increase production capacity, improve the quality of their products (eggs and concentrate in pellets), mitigation of climate change through manure pelleting, social and economic women integration, improve hygiene conditions/meet ISO standards by driven by egg production from the cage to the table, reducing the use of fossil fuels.

ACTIVITIES:

-Install manure treatment, drying and packaging line for the chicken manure into small bean-shaped dried pellets (To utilize the in farm hot air (40°C, not using any other source of energy) to bags 5-10 kg; -Cooling chambers for proper storage of eggs priory to delivery (24 hours); -Egg collection, grading, and stamping machine; -10,000 bird’s capacity of egg-laying chicken hens; -Cooled and ventilated vehicle for eggs distribution into the retail market; -Laboratory equipment to perform laboratory analyses of the feed concentrate; -Install feed concentrate pelletizing and packaging machine, industrial-scale/ weigher; -To implement food safety standards in egg farming ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 22000 (HACCP); Install 40 KW per hour of photovoltaic solar panels etc. -Farm Security and Food safety yard designating fences, concrete walkways, etc.

RESULTS:

-To produce dried manure 450 MT from farm premises out of them 300 MT from farm premises and 150 MT from other surrounding chicken farms which monetary ranges to above 50,000€ (Selling price of dried manure is 150 €/MT); -I increase of feed animal production to 1,200MT, which monetary ranges to above 200,000€ per year; -egg production is 6 million eggs per year;