Rolling national power cuts, or ‘loadshedding’, continue to have a devastating effect on poultry farmers and abattoirs throughout South Africa. Poultry World spoke to Izaak Breitenbach, CEO of the South African Poultry Association, to find out how this unique energy crisis has impacted the sector, which is forced to deal with hiked costs and power disruptions that last anywhere between 2 and 10 hours a day, every day.
Rolling national power cuts, or ‘loadshedding’, continue to have a devastating effect on poultry farmers and abattoirs throughout South Africa. Poultry World spoke to Izaak Breitenbach, CEO of the South African Poultry Association, to find out how this unique energy crisis has impacted the sector, which is forced to deal with hiked costs and power disruptions that last anywhere between 2 and 10 hours a day, every day. Loadshedding has become a daily reality across the country and is a result of ageing coal-fired power stations, corrupt coal procurement deals and criminal sabotage, all of which have impacted the national power utility, Eskom, to supply adequate electricity to South African businesses and households. The result is power cuts across the country which, according to a popular loadshedding app, EskomSePush, experienced 2,881 hours of loadshedding in 2022. Loadshedding was implemented every day in January this year, with no respite in sight. Astral Foods, one of South ...
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