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South Africa's poultry industry's recovery trail and Animal Biosecurity Committee

Published Sep 27, 2021

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In 2019, the South African government formulated a Master Plan to bolster the poultry industry, aimed at enhancing production and streamlining the supply chain, with an objective to lessen reliance on imports and stimulate localization. This strategy, adopted amidst complaints about competitive pressures from international sources like Brazil, the USA, and Europe, has experienced setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic and challenges such as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, escalated transport costs, and feed price fluctuations. Notwithstanding these hurdles, the industry's resilience, fueled by rising poultry meat demand due to increased costs in other protein sources, is anticipated to restore growth to pre-pandemic levels by 2022, propelled by the reopening of Africa's traditional poultry meat export markets.

To bolster industry resilience, the government established a Ministerial Task Team on Animal Biosecurity, tasked with devising practical strategies to address animal disease challenges, including Foot and Mouth Disease, African Swine Fever, and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. This initiative underscores the country's commitment to Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in preparing for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021, focusing on collaborative efforts to tackle animal biosecurity issues and ensuring a holistic approach to animal and public health through a "One Health" framework.
Disclaimer: The above summary was generated by Tridge's proprietary AI model for informational purposes.

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Master plan and consumer behavior In 2019 the South African Government developed a Master Plan to boost production and supply chain of the poultry industry. The plan emerged as part of the South African Government efforts to strengthen localization of its economy and limit imports. It was partly influenced by complaints from local poultry industry players about imports from places such as Brazil, USA and Europe. Since 2019 the industry has benefited from investments amounting to 78 million US Dollars. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and challenges related to outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), increasing cost of transport, insufficient rail system, increasing cost of feed materials continue to limit the growth of the industry. On the other hand increasing demand of poultry meat due to increasing cost of other meat based proteins, such as beef, has result in strengthening the industry in 2022, bringing it back to its pre-COVID-19 levels. This recovery will also be ...

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