Poultry industry in Cameroon faces disagreements over chicken pricing

(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroon Poultry Interprofessional Association (Ipavic) sent a letter on October 23 to sector players, informing them of its intention to standardize farmgate chicken prices. The letter, signed by François Djonou, the president of this corporate group, suggested that chickens weighing between 1.8 and 2 kg would be sold at CFA2,300. The proposal did not receive unanimous approval from industry professionals. The Association of Broiler Chicken Producers in the Littoral and Southwest (Appolis) stated that this price does not reflect the reality of production costs. "The price of CFA2,300 no longer corresponds to the actual cost of broiler production. To produce a chicken weighing 1.7 to 2 kg, you need to budget CFA2,200 in production costs. We believe that the margin of CFA100 does not match the efforts made over two months (the production period)," Patrick Bakam, interim vice president of Appolis, told Business in Cameroon. He praised efforts to ...