LETTER: Let farmers feed our people with home-grown chicken
It is not fair to expect SA chicken farmers to compete with overseas producers who are subsidised by their governments
01 March 2021 - 16:48
As a contract grower who owns a farm with 130,000 chickens and leases a second broiler farm near Lanseria, Gauteng, I welcome the move by the SA Poultry Association (Sapa) to apply for antidumping tariffs against Brazil and four European countries.
It is shocking that these countries sell their chicken to SA at a price much lower than they would sell the same chicken in their own countries, and much lower than what it costs to get a chicken from day-old chick to slaughter size...
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