50,000 imported breeder chickens arrive in Taiwan

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Taiwan has taken delivery of 50,000 imported breeder chickens as part of efforts to import 300,000 such chickens this year and address a nationwide egg shortage, a Council of Agriculture (COA) official said Monday. The COA will help egg farmers import egg-laying birds in order to provide sufficient supply and accelerate the phase-out of low-yielding hens. This year, the number of imported egg-laying chickens is expected to reach 300,000, according to a written report sent by the COA to the Legislative Yuan. It will also import a total of 5 million shell and liquid eggs by the end of March, under a special project to address the egg shortage, the report states. A total of 260,000 egg-laying chickens were imported last year, and in 2023 the COA's goal is to import 300,000. So far, Taiwan has taken delivery of 50,000 imported breeders this year, Chiang Wen-chuan (江文全), deputy of the Council of Agriculture's (COA) Department of Animal Industry, told CNA over the ...