MARGARITA FONTE
PRODUCTION OF MINOR ANIMALS FOR SALE LOCATION
LOCATION
Community: Pijal
Parish: Gonzalez Suarez
Canton: Otavalo
Province: Imbabura
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Produce chickens and guinea pigs for sale in the local market.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. Build the necessary facilities for the animals.
2. Technically raise chickens and guinea pigs.
3. Generate economic income from the sale of animals.
GOALS
1. Construction of a 40 square meter warehouse.
2. Sale of 90% of the animals, having a maximum mortality rate of 10%.
3. The sale prices will be: hens for $10 with an average weight of 2.5 kilos/2.5 months. Guinea pigs for $8 weighing $1.5 kilos/3 months.
TERM
The development of the project is scheduled for 12 months, which includes from the delivery of resources to payment. The design stage is not considered within the deadline.
PRODUCTION PROCESS
The animals will be fed 90% with seeds and grass collected in the area and 10% with growth and fattening feed. The care during production time will be in charge of Margarita and her family. The chickens will remain loose on the land, while the guinea pigs will be in pools where they will be separated by: age, sex and color. Once the production cycle is over, the animals will be offered live or meat in the community or local market, to neighbors, friends and final consumers. On the other hand, animals that do not reach the necessary weight and size will be consumed by the family.
FINANCING
The sources of financing for this project are: FEDICE $2000 through a reimbursable fund and Margarita $6,200 distributed between investment, work and expenses. The following table presents the sources and uses of resources.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Verifications of compliance with the proposed objectives will be through visits to the production site, where information will be collected in videos, photographs, and audios. At the end of the project, we will apply a participatory evaluation to determine the success or otherwise of the project, for which we will evaluate the planned goals. In this same sense we will measure the qualitative change in family well-being.