Colombia: 26 million birds for chicken meat and eggs are without food in the Coffee Region and Northern Vale

From the regional FENAVI to the Eixo Café and Norte Del Valle, they announce that about 26 million birds for the production of chicken meat and eggs are without food, due to road blocks that exist in different parts of the country. They warn that these animals are dying daily because of this situation. “The process of reproducing a bird lasts a year and a half, that is, the birds die, unemployment is lifted today and tomorrow we will not have chicken meat, nor will we have eggs, that whole cycle since the beginning of the incubation process a year and a half, so you imagine the lack that comes to our country and our region, it is alarming ”, explains Adriana Dávila Velásquez, director of FENAVI for the Coffee Region and North of the Valley. He recalls that this sector depends 100% on the port of Buenaventura, where it says that 250 thousand tons of food are dammed, so they have not been able to obtain corn and other essential inputs for the maintenance of animals. “From here it ...