City Press reports that SA Poultry Association (Sapa) CEO Kevin Lovell said this week that the poultry sector was still gradually shedding jobs despite the setting up of a task team to try and halt the crisis in the industry.
The chicken sector shed about 4,700 jobs in the last financial year, he added. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) indicated in February this year that the poultry industry employed 48,000 and 63,000 people in direct and indirect jobs respectively. The task team, comprised of representatives of the DTI; the departments of agriculture, forestry and fisheries (DAFF) and economic development; as well as the Industrial Development Corporation, was established by government in January to deal with the crisis in the poultry sector that saw the industry bleeding jobs at an alarming rate.
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