Advancing Genomic-Enabled Newcastle Disease Resistance in Chickens (AGENew)

The main goal is to increase the productivity and enhance Newcastle Disease resistance of indigenous poultry breeds in Ghana and Tanzania through genetic improvement, business planning, and capacity strengthening of poultry value chain actors.

The objectives of the project are to: Enhance Newcastle disease resistance in indigenous chickens using genomic selection breeding techniques.

Create an inclusive business plan to market and distribute Newcastle disease-resistant poultry products to local smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Strengthen the capacity of local research institutions, community animal health workers, poultry breeders, smallholder poultry farmers, and others in the poultry sector to continue genomic selection research, breeding, and caretaking of improved poultry stock.