Avian Flu News
A worrying update on Avian Flu: the disease is now firmly established as a seasonal threat to global poultry farming.
The virus is mutating rapidly and new variations are occurring in different countries. Apart from impacting severely on poultry flocks and wild birds, the virus is also now jumping to other species, including humans.
For an update on the virus, please see our updated Avian Flu Fact Sheet.
International News
South Africa remains the largest producer of poultry on the continent, but there are competitors nipping at our heels. Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Nigeria are building up their domestic capacity with World Bank support.
Industry News
The long-discussed unbundling of Rainbow Chickens from its parent company RCL now has a date: the company will list on the JSE on July 26. Tim Bell of Daily Maverick spoke to Rainbow MD Marthinus Stander, about the latest development.
Support Industry News
A job opportunity for small farmers…. Start a fly farm. Seeing that most of us host a fly farm every time we fire up the braai, it seems an easy win for entrepreneurs.
On a serious note, there is huge potential here for an alternative to pricey chicken feed.
Import/Export News
Revisiting a decades-old issue, the question of exporting to the EU has raised its head again.
This article does over-simplify the issue, which is also bound up in questions such as balancing the carcase, phyto-sanitary arrangements, departmental foot-dragging, and import-exports permits, among many others.
The minister who inherits the DTIC portfolio will have a shopping list of crises to deal with. To this end, we have recorded a podcast with an economics professor to unpack what challenges the new minister will face.
