ABOUT US

vrbtc mission

Victory Rabbit Breeding and Training Center would wish to contribute to poverty reduction, employment creation and food security through promotion of commercial rabbit farming.

vrbtc vision

To be the largest rabbit supplier of rabbit and training center for all prospective rabbit farmers in the region.

How I Identified The Need

The rabbit industry is not new to Ghana. Forty years ago, Ghana begun a national rabbitry project to, among other things, to help every Ghanaian produce their own meat and eat healthy protein as the deadly kwashiorkor disease and malnutrition was on the rise, especially among children at the time. This was part of the famous operation feed yourself programmed by General Kutu Acheampong’s government.

The project like many other government initiatives, collapse after Acheampong’s overthrow in 1978. In 2012 alone, Ghana imported over US 120 million of meat products, according to the statistics at the food and Agriculture organization ( FAO). Although the importation of animal protein sources increases annually, there is still less meat per capita. High cost of importation means expensive retail prices. This is largely responsible for the poor protein intake in Ghana which currently is estimated to be around 27 per cent short of the FAO daily protein requirement of 48.8 per cent of food intake.

Livestock production is disjointed and relatively less commercialize in Ghana. The also leaves room for traditional hunting of animals in the wild for meat purposes, threatening the country’s forest reserve and putting the health safety of such products into question.