Gambia: Domestic poultry production at risk due to shortage of feed
Gambia
Published May 19, 2022
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Accordong to information gathered by these reporters, domstic poultry producers face high risks of loosing their birds due to shortage of poultry feed. According to Assan Secka, managing director of Gam-Holland Heavens feed producers, more than 200, 000 birds face the risk of dying due to shortage of poultry feed across the country. "It is worse than the pandemic.
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I can tell you that more than 200, 000 chickens can die due to lack of poultry feed, and we cannot get poultry feed from Senegal because they too have shortage (feed) and are trying to manage the little they have to be able to supply their farmers," a seemingly discouraged Secka told these reporters. According to Secka, the price of chicken feed referred as 'wheat bran' has jumped to 60%, while that of corn rose to 50%, due to the global supply chain that has beeen affected by the war in Ukraine. Secka said most poultry producers risk loosing their jobs as well, due to the shorrtage of chicken feed, saying hundreds of people who are involved in commercial poultry business, do not have the purchasing power to remedy the situation. He said the feed imported from Senegal comes thrrough through Russia or Ukraine, where the maize is largely cultivated. But due to the on-going war between the two countries, everything is at risk for poultry producers. "Poultry farmers are crying and ...
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