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BusinessLive reports that according to the SA Poultry Association (Sapa), the poultry industry is in trouble because of an oversupply of chickens from the EU flooding the local market.
It claims that the industry could create up to 50,000 direct and indirect jobs, including grain jobs, if SA did not import chickens. The association, which appeared in Parliament this week, is lobbying the government to intervene, failing which thousands of jobs could be lost. Sapa CEO Kevin Lovell said: "The survival of this industry — food security, the rural economy and 130,000 workers and their families — is largely in the hands of government… If government helps us survive, we can grow and contribute substantially to the future of our country." Lovell also said some companies were about to shed a few thousand jobs. The local industry and unions argue that the EU is selling chicken legs, thighs and wings below cost. But the EU has said its farmers are simply more competitive than their counterparts in SA.
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