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Cost of poultry products to go up due to shortages of day old chicks of 500 000 per week caused by avian flu outbreaks

6 years agoWed, 23 Aug 2017 08:40:42 GMT
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Cost of poultry products to go up due to shortages of day old chicks of 500 000 per week caused by avian flu outbreaks

The cost of poultry products is expected to go up following the shortage of broiler chickens due to the outbreak of avian influenza. According to an industry report, the supply of the broiler chicks has gone down by 500 000 per week after two outbreaks in May and July at Lanark Farm.

Zimbabwe Poultry Association (ZPA) chairperson, Solomon Zawe, in an update said

Any bridging hatching egg supplies will have to be imported from outside the Southern African Development Community region at a much higher cost. Thus, production costs in the third quarter will be higher and characterised by periodic shortages unless import permit processing as well as foreign currency allocation for hatching egg imports are smoothened.

It is estimated that the culling of the parent stock represents the loss in supply of 500,000 broiler day old chicks to the market

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