(1 dollar is about 550cfa)
cost of a piglet: 18-20,000 cfaa
(32.2 - 36.36 dollars :ed) pig is usually sold or impregnated when it reaches the age of ten months. piglets can be up to two months old when bought.the major cost in keeping a pig is feeding it. it costs more to feed a pig than children. the pig consumes more as it grows. a pig can be fattened on garbage and grass, but this reduces the quality of its meat and most families do not generate enough garbage to complete the pig's diet without buying feed. thus, those who raise pigs for profit and not to kill for their own eating usually buy feed. feed costs about 7,000 cfa
(12.7 dollars :ed) sack, and the pig will eat on average one sack per month (of course more or less depending on its size) this means that a pig that is fattened for eight months will consume ~56,000 cfa
(101.81 dollars :ed) (worth of feed, supplemented with grass and garbage. i am told that the quality of the pig's meat and thus the price it fetches at maturity depends mostly on the composition of its diet health costs: the pig needs to be dewormed every 2 months at a cost of 250cfa
(45 cents :ed) for each treatment, and it needs to be given medicine for the prevention of swine fever (a drug called animalia), which costs 2,000
(3.63 dollars: ed) for a supply lasting about six weeks. the cost of having your female pig impregnated is 4,000
(7.27 dollars: ed), should you choose to continue the line and sell piglets. otherwise the pig can be sold at maturity for between 60,000 and 120,000 cfa
(109 and 218 dollars :ed) depending on its weight and the quality of its meat. other broad economic factors will naturally influence the price as well.
so it is not always guaranteed to turn a profit on the raising of a single pig from startup.
i have had the principal identify families that are poor that can be recommended for the scholarship program.
so many poor families actually could afford the price of piglet, just not the cost of its food. it remains that a fattened pig at market can earn enough money to pay the school fees of 3-4 children.
i'm not sure how you envision the program to work (that is to give them money to raise a pig and sell it or give them money to start a continual operation). in the latter case it is not certain what portion of the piglet sales would have to be reinvested and what portion could be used for scholarships...
