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Ghana’s Agricultural Development Bank has announced a GHC500 million (US$?87 million) loan facility in support of the government’s Broiler Revitalisation Programme aimed at increasing the domestic production of chicken.
Fears are growing that the UK poultry industry could be decimated after it emerged that the Home Office’s Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination Bill has labelled key food workers as “low skilled”.
Gallusman, part of Ukraine’s Ovostar Union Group has announced plans to invest € 100 million to build a huge egg production facility in Latvia. The project is planned as a joint venture with Nordic energy company ADVEN with nearly 90% of eggs from the new facility destined for exports.
Following a staggering drop in demand for poultry meat and eggs in Bangladesh since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, production has plummeted by at least 50%.
Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) anticipates its best performing year ever due to soaring pork prices and a recovery of chicken prices, according to the company’s CEO.
Egg industry leaders and animal welfare groups have joined forces to criticise the UK Government for failing to do more to protect the sector against the threat of low welfare standard imports.
Ukraine’s biggest poultry producer MHP had to reduce its export volume in the first quarter of 2020 because of the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) in Vinnitsa Oblast. The negative impact of the disease on the export is lessening now the virus is under control, but the possibility is there that Covid-19 will affect MHP’s international operations in the second quarter of 2020.
Retailers and farmer’s unions in the UK and beyond have been battling to ensure that egg and poultry meat supply chains remain robust in the light of unprecedented demand in recent weeks.
Brazilian chicken exports have increased by 5.1% to 1.365 million tons, during the first 4 months of 2020 compared to the same period last year. That is concluded in the ABPA report that shows that the country consolidates its position as the main exporter last year, despite Covid-19.
Several dozen videos have been posted on social media in Iran showing thousands of day-old chicks being buried alive with bulldozes. This is likely to be linked with the price hike on the domestic feed market over the past few weeks.
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