Poultry News from Africa

Mass backyard poultry vaccination to fight castle disease risk

The ministries of Agriculture and Health in collaboration with the Freetown City Council western area rural district council and the Sierra Leone Animal Welfare Society have concluded a two-day vaccination exercise for backyard poultry against the new castle disease.

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Imports needed due to rice and poultry shortages

The state-run General Authority for the Supply of Commodities (GASC) is currently seeking tenders for the purchase of 70,000 metric tons of rice, to be sold on to ration card holders. The move aims to offset anticipated supply shortages before and during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which will begin next month.

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Poultry farming hits a wall in Kenya

The high cost of inputs and unavailability of stock are hurting poultry farming in Kenya.

Production cost doubled in the last one year despite Kenyans’ adoption of healthy lifestyles that has seen wider uptake of chicken.

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KFC controversially goes Halal in Swaziland

When Kentucky Fried Chicken officially announced that its meat was now halaal, there was a little agitation among some of its Christian customers

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Poultry famers chart way forward

Poultry farmers and other stakeholders in the poultry sector of the agricultural industry gathered in Ibadan for a seminar on poultry production.
The seminar had in attendance renown poultry production and management experts drawn from different parts of the world like South_Africa, Austria, Germany and USA.

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