The Avian Flu outbreak of last year is finally officially over, with no new cases reported since November last year.
National News
Transformation in the poultry remains an elusive goal, as the problems facing the poultry industry will hit the small and emerging farmers the hardest.
Consumer News
The rising price of poultry products remains concerning, even though our Food Basket Barometer shows that IQF, the type of chicken that most lower-income consumer purchase, has not increased by the same margin.
Industry News
The Competition Commission has launched an investigation into the poultry value chain, which has been described as ‘an attack on the industry’. However, the large poultry producers have announced that they will co-operate fully with the enquiry.
Pilane Kobedi of African Poultry Producers says that the enquiry is long overdue as one of the features of the local industry is the fact that the large companies control every aspect of the poultry value chain and use this control to create barriers for new entrants.
His organisation is in the process of creating an ‘alternative value chain’ to include industry players who feel excluded from the mainstream industry
And Finally…
Forget expensive security measures…. Guineafowl make good poultry protection officers.
