LETTER: All South Africans, including retail chains, should buy local chicken
I dream of being an employer for young women, and if my plans work out I will be able to employ 30-50 people and support others to create their own businesses selling my eggs
As an egg farmer, I applaud the SA Poultry Association (Sapa) for its antidumping duty application, which hopes to stop unfair competition from the EU and Brazil that stops chicken farmers from growing our businesses (“Poultry producers want anti-dumping duties to target Brazil and four EU states,” February 22).
This is the biggest agricultural industry and between eggs and broilers we produce the most affordable proteins available to SA families. Dumping has been a problem for longer than I have been in business, and when I hear how foreign producers get government subsidies, my heart bleeds for our own farmers. We get no such help, but we have to compete for shelf space with chicken dumped here at subsidised prices...
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