ChickenFacts has identified several missed targets, in particular export opportunities
The Poultry Master Plan signed by industry players in 2019 to level the playing field and chart a growth path seems to have stalled, with little progress, as local producers and importers cluck at each other.
Research group ChickenFacts said that, overall, progress of the master plan had been uneven, largely ascribed to the pandemic, its accompanying lockdown, economic uncertainty, climate change which had manifested in floods and drought, and periodic outbreaks of avian influenza.
“But there has also been criticism that many structural problems in the industry are not addressed by the master plan, and that certain signatories have made no progress at all,” it said.
ChickenFacts examined the progress of the master plan, roughly 1 000 days since…