Measures to secure poultry needs during the next Ramadan are on the table of professionals and the government
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press. Rabat
The Board of Directors of the Interprofessional Federation of the Poultry Sector confirmed, during a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests, Ahmed Al-Bouari, in the presence of the Director General and directors of the National Agency for Food Safety (ONSSA) and the Director of Production Chain Development (DDFP), that all necessary measures have been taken to ensure a normal supply of poultry to the market.
The Federal Reserve indicated in its report that the meeting, dedicated to studying the current situation of the poultry sector and supplying the national market with poultry meat and eggs for consumption during the month of Ramadan 1446, indicated that prices of poultry products are subject to supply and demand mechanisms, noting that the increase in prices is mainly due to the increase in demand for poultry products due to high prices of poultry. red meat.
The Federal Reserve also confirmed that intermediaries, despite the effective role they play between the producer and the consumer, remain a factor in raising prices.
The federation highlighted a set of solutions to overcome these problems, including encouraging the collection system and the development of integrated ecosystems, reducing marginal costs, encouraging the development of industrial slaughterhouses and rehabilitating farms by converting them into slaughterhouses. local to meet the needs of families. or to stores approved for the sale of poultry meat.
During this meeting, a comparison was presented between the position of the different chains in the sector at the end of October 2024 and October 2023.
According to the federal report, imports of breeding chickens, meat type, according to the poultry federation, amounted to 3.468 million units in 2024, compared to 3.051 million units in 2023, an increase of +14%, while that imports of breeding turkeys reached 136,376 units in 2024, compared to 131,511 units in 2023, an increase of +4%.
The same source confirms that imports of breeding eggs in 2024 amounted to 267,667 units, compared to 204,714 units in 2023, an increase of +31%.
Concerning imports of turkey chicks, they reached 1,635 million units in 2024 compared to 552,090 units in 2023, an increase of +196%.
Professionals reported that domestic production recorded the production of 391.137 million meat-type chicks in 2024, compared to 370.946 million chicks in 2023, an increase of +5%, while the total imported and produced turkey chicks locally reached 14,306 million units in 2024. compared to 12,265 million units in 2023, an increase of +17%.
Professionals add that national production recorded 11.893 million egg-type chicks in 2024, compared to 13.585 million units in 2023, a decrease of -12%. This drop is due to the extension of the rearing period for laying hens from 75-80 weeks to 90-100 weeks in 2024.
According to the federal report, production is estimated at 735,000 tonnes of poultry meat in 2024 compared to 695,000 tonnes in 2023, an increase of +6%, in addition to 5.5 billion eggs for consumption in 2024 compared to 5.3 billion of eggs in 2023, an increase. Its amount is +4%.
