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ANA reports that the open animosity between chicken importers and chicken producers intensified on Thursday as each blamed the other for the crisis facing the poultry industry in SA.
The SA Poultry Association (Sapa) and the Association of Meat Importers and Exporters (Amie) joined unions and state departments in briefing Parliament's portfolio committee on trade and industry during public hearings on the crisis. Sapa argued that the EU was illegally and unfairly dumping bone-in chicken portions in SA and that, if government did not intervene and possibly increase tariffs, the jobs bloodbath would continue across the industry value chain. Amie hit back, saying the crisis and the possible job losses were based on inefficiencies in local operations. The unions called for intervention from government. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks called for the immediate cessation of retrenchments, saying those who had already been laid off should either be re-employed or re-deployed.
- Read this report by Chantall Presence in full at Business Report
- Read too, Poultry industry public hearings start in Parliament, at SA Govt News Agency
- And also, Poultry crisis: What is the actual problem? at Fin24
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