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Sunday Tribune reports that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) convened a meeting with various stakeholders last week to try and pluck the poultry industry out of its present crisis.
The industry has been rocked by cheap imported chicken “dumped” locally at heavily discounted prices, with the biggest exporters of chicken to SA being EU nations. Kevin Lovell, CE of the SA Poultry Association, raised an array of challenges local chicken producers faced, stressing that as long as European countries were allowed to dump their chicken in SA, the local industry would suffer. But, Lovell said he was satisfied that the government had engaged with the poultry industry to map a way forward. The DTI’s Garth Strachan said the government was making a serious commitment, along with other role players, to achieve a turnaround. He noted that one of the important considerations to emerge from the meeting was means and methods to save jobs.
- Read this report by Mervyn Naidoo in full at Business Report
- Read too, Poultry importers cry foul for getting blame for chicken crisis, at City Press
- And also, High poultry prices to hit our pockets, on page 1 of Sunday Independent Business Report of 22 January 2017
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