The PNG Agriculture Commercialization and Diversification (PACD) Project through the partnership model program continues in fulfilling its objective in improving the lives of the rural population. The basic objective of the project is to facilitate the development of competitive and diversified agriculture value chains for selected commodities in the targeted provinces. As part of the project design and initiative, East New Britain Province (ENBP) is the first province to have a poultry rollout program with a total of more than 1, 000 farmers with their households participating. Kairak Center for Sustainable Rural Development (KCfSRD) in partnership with the PACD-Cocoa project, conducted a three-day training that took place from the 26th to the 28th of March on Basic Broiler Farming for a total of 150 farmers both men and women including youths at the Kairak Resource Center in the Gazelle District. The aim of the training is to equip participants with the basic knowledge and skills of poultry farming including good waste management practices to mitigate and monitor waste from poultry farming. Kairak is a productive partnership with the PACD project managing two poultry projects the North Baining Poultry, Piggery Commercialization, and Galip Diversification project and Ataliklikun Commercial Small Livestock and Galip Diversification. A total of 1, 000 farmers have registered under Kairak; 500 each for both the projects and about 14, 000 day-old-chicks have also been distributed to the participants at the beginning in March of this year. In addition, the income generated from the first batch of the rollout program will eventually be used as seed capital save in individual bank accounts with an aim to save money or purchase chicks again and eventually venture into other micro, small to medium enterprise activities. The participants are expected to use the knowledge acquired in the training to manage poultry projects as a micro enterprise in their respective villages. Participant, Matiran Tutmulai, who is a member of the Ataliklikun from Vudal ward, said the training has taught a lot and will motivate her members to adopt best practices in poultry farming. Meanwhile, representing the Cocoa PACD Project Management Unit (PMU) Productive Partnership Coordinator, Martin Powell, was present to witness the small yet significant gathering for the farmers. Other guests who also attended to witness the event were, Vice Chancellor of Papua New Guinea University of Natural Resources and Environment, Professor Isak Pue as well as KCfSRD Manager, Hosea Turbarat. On behalf of the Cocoa PACD Project, Mr. Powell urged the gathering that this training is vital as they already received day-old chicks to utilize these knowledge and skills in their small poultry projects. “Chickens are perfect and sustainable way to ensure adequate protein is included in diet as many surveys shown that there is shortage in protein and is expensive.” “Look after your poultry projects, sell them and the income look after your families, save some and used some to buy day old chicks again.”