Poultry

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S. Africa’s Neighbours Ban Poultry Imports Over Bird Flu

Four of South Africa's neighbours have banned poultry imports from the rainbow nation following a serious outbreak of a...

News

Local Farmers Produce Only 5% of Chicken Consumed In Ghana

Local poultry farmers only produce five per cent of chicken consumed in the country with 95 per cent imported, an...

Business

Ofori-Asante Likely To Be Appointed As CEO of Petroleum Commission

President Nana Akufo-Addo is yet to appoint someone to take over as Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Commission,...

Business

Poultry Industry Near Collapse Over No Compensation For Bird Flu

Poultry farmers are yet to be paid after their birds were destroyed due to bird flu attack The constant refusal by...

Headlines

Free Incubators Save Lives of Indonesian Babies

Tiny Indonesian baby Maryamah stared around from inside an incubator, her bright eyes swivelling left and right from...

International

Poultry In England Allowed Outside As Anti-Bird Flu Measures Relaxed

All poultry in England will be allowed outside again from Thursday, having been kept indoors to protect them from an...

Business

2m Local Chickens Consumed Annually

Ghanaians consumed more than two million locally-produced chickens last year, a new USAID survey of the sector has...

Business

Cost of Borrowing Killing Poultry Industry

The Chairman of Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers, Victor OppongAgyei, has bemoaned the high cost of...

Headlines

Egypt Resumes Brazil Meat Imports

Egypt said on Saturday it would resume importing meat from Brazil after a brief suspension following allegations that...

Headlines

Hong Kong Bans Brazilian Meat Imports

Hong Kong became the latest government to suspend imports from Brazil Tuesday in the wake of a rotten meat scandal....

Business

Ban Poultry Importation

The Ghana Charismatic Bishops' Conference (GCBC) has said that instead of pursuing a one district one factory policy,...

Headlines

Antibiotic-Free Meat Gets A Foothold In US

Facing pressure from environmentalists and shareholder activists, major US food companies and restaurant chains are...

Business

Over 150,000 Eggs In Ghana Go Waste Annually

The Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers has told Citi Business News over 10% of eggs produced annually are...

Top Stories

Poultry Farmers Upbeat 2017 Budget Will Revive the Industry

Poultry Farmers Association of Ghana has lauded government’s quest to address challenges faced by maize farmers in...

Top Stories

Chief Promises One-Family, Five Fowls For Residents

The Paramount chief of Owirenchiman Traditional Area in Assin Kushea, Ehunabobrim Otekokoso Pra Agyinsem VI has...

Headlines

Bird-Flu Deaths Rise In China, Shutting Poultry Markets

China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013,...

Business

Tax On Imported Poultry An Exercise In Futility

A new report on the poultry industry in Ghana has shown that government’s action to promote the industry by slapping...

Opinion

One Region, One Incubator Panacea For Youth Unemployment In Ghana

The political campaign season is here with us again. An apparent struggle to determine who controls the states...

Business

Institute Retail Price For Eggs

A former Director General of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, has called on poultry...