Poultry farmers in Kazakhstan are asking for restrictions on the import of chicken legs from the USA

The Union of Poultry Farmers of Kazakhstan advocates introducing restrictions on the import of poultry products from the United States into the country. The president of the organization, Ruslan Sharipov, announced this in an interview with the APK Novosti agency, which specializes in information about the work of the republic’s agro-industrial complex. “Kazakhstan’s poultry farmers support this initiative,” he said. Sharipov noted that a large amount of poultry meat and American-made chicken legs are supplied to the domestic market at dumping prices. “According to the approved tariff quotas for poultry meat, a quota for 140 thousand tons of poultry meat is approved annually. Currently, domestic poultry farming is not able to compete with foreign producers, since there are no production facilities in the republic for the production of equipment, premixes and vitamins, veterinary drugs, no own breeding base, which creates a real threat to the introduction of infectious disease ...