Agriculture is part of the livelihood training given to the children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia. A few years ago the Home started raising livestock, and last year it started the vermicast project that gets compost from earthworms. In February this year, the Home started to raise ducks.
We started with 50 ducklings, and some of the older boys in the Home were trained and assigned to feed the ducks and harvest the eggs.
Initially the ducks were fed on rice husks only. They started producing eggs in the second month but the harvest was only 3-5 eggs a day. So in April we began to give them commercial feeds. Since June we have been more than 500 eggs a month, enough to meet the needs of the home.
