BUSINESS DAY TV: EU food sensibilities are ruining SA poultry producers
South African Poultry Association CEO Kevin Lovell says the problem is not SA’s inefficiency, but developed markets’ need to get rid of the bits their citizens won’t eat
Kevin Lovell is CEO of the South African Poultry Association. BUSINESS DAY TV: Jobs are being lost, government is stepping in and the European Union is being targeted. At least 1,000 workers in the poultry industry are planning a march on the European Union’s offices in Pretoria tomorrow to protest over cheap chicken imports. They claim dumping chicken portions in SA is putting local producers out of business and the ANC has proposed that government should buy chicken farms that face closure. For his thoughts on all of this, we’re joined in the News Leader studio by Kevin Lovell, CEO of the South African Poultry Association. Kevin … a march to the EU buildings set to progress tomorrow … [and] the South African government has established a poultry sector task team to deal with the domestic crisis. Do we assume that hardly any progress is being made on that front? KEVIN LOVELL: I don’t think we should assume that, the government established this team internally near the end of last ye...
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