At a poultry farm in Ijede, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, over a dozen men hand-pick eggs every day from the battery cage into crates. The eggs are later sorted and arranged in sizes to be supplied across the city.
The poultry farm, with a capacity of 5,000 layer birds, was established 20 years a
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.
