Neighbours and the site: distances, nuisances, good relations
A farm does not live alone: it has neighbours who smell its odours, count its flies, hear its generator and drink the water that passes beneath it. Many well-run farms have closed not because of disease, but because of a land dispute or a complaint in the village. This lesson teaches you to choose and read a site, to respect reasonable distances, to measure and reduce each nuisance, and to build with the village and the administration the relations that protect the farm on the day something goes wrong.
12 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006Lesson reserved for students following the steps
This lesson is part of Level 14 — Environment, regulation and sustainability. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 13 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
What you will learn
- ✓Read a site: slope, wind, water, access, neighbours, and deduce where to place each element of the farm
- ✓Apply reasonable distances between the houses, dwellings, water points and other poultry farms
- ✓Identify the five nuisances of a farm, measure them and reduce them at source
- ✓Build good relations with the village, the neighbours and the administration, and maintain them