Nigeria’s digital poultry platform, epoultry as part of boost its Africa operations has appointed Professor Chyi-lyi Kathleen Liang to its board.
Epoultry is a social enterprise leveraging digital technology to provide smallholder farmers in Africa input financing, access to profitable markets and life skills. Its founder, Anthony Owei in a statement he personally signed said Prof Liang appointment is part of the strategic effort of epoultry to expand its frontiers in Africa.
Owei in the statement said Liang a Master’s degree and PhD in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University, Indiana, USA and a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from National Taiwan University will spearhead epoultry efforts in helping with innovative and herbal food systems that reduces the cost of production for smallholder poultry farmers in Nigeria “which we are piloting as well as sustainable community development and entrepreneurship that deepens our impact and work on the continent.”
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Liang currently works as the Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Agriculture and the Director of Center for Environmental Farming Systems, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, America’s largest historically Black university.
Owei disclosed that Prof Liang is an award-winning scholar and founder of Dollar Enterprise, one of the best entrepreneurship curricula in the United States. He further explained that since 2005, Dollar Enterprise has educated more than 3,000 students, worked with over 400 community partners, donated more than $60,000 to charity organizations, and offered more than 50,000 service-learning hours to charity organizations.
The statement noted that Liang does research in Agricultural Economics, Multifunctional agriculture, entrepreneurship and community development, and her current projects include Reginal Food Networks and Impacts on Food Security, Racial Equity in Food Systems, Entrepreneurship, and Experiential Learning.
