NAAD persists with efforts to support trained Poultry famer producers in a bid to fight poverty and under-development as well as to provoke rural economic development. C-way- Poultry, started its poultry faming business in 2012 producing only eggs. NAAD identified the potential in her after she attended the NAAD-Woman poultry training we decided to inject a grant of Thirty-one thousand (31 000) layer chickens to assist the farm with increasing production. NAAD upgraded her poultry farm from a farm that was only producing eggs to a farm that now produce’s eggs, processing, marketing of eggs and culling of the end point of lay chickens. The Managing Director and CEO of C-way-Poultry, Mrs, Chinwe Okam (36) expressed her gratitude towards the agency’s commitment in empowering young farmers. “Thank you to the National Agency for Agricultural Development for once again continuing to strive in supporting youth farmers especially in terms of commercializing and becoming quite competitive within the industry. We look forward to further support and we know that together we can definitely make a success of this journey that we are all trying to achieve in building commercial farmers in this poultry industry” she said.

The C-way Poultry is situated in Okigwe, in Imo State, NAAD went further to build for Ms Chinwe Okam, Seven layer houses that comprise of five houses with a capacity of 11 200 layers each and one house with a capacity of 16 300 layers that are on a 7.5ha land as well as an additional seven layer houses with a capacity of 34 500 each. The layer houses have a capacity of 274  300 layer chickens of which six houses are automated, borehole that is equipped, store-room, office block, and security fence, a tractor with a trailer, forklift, ablution facilities and 3-phase electricity. NAAD is envisaging to assist C-way poultry to invest further in an agro-processing plant with collection, washing and grading, sorting and automated egg packing system. The Poultry currently employs youth and is devoted to the skills and capacity building of its employees who mostly come from surrounding villages and about forty-seven (47) permanent jobs are expected to be created with an additional of twenty-five (25) seasonal Laboure’s.