Facility aims to reduce chick imports and increase domestic poultry meat supply; project funded by Qatar-based development agency
Each house at the newly opened facility can accommodate 45,000 birds per cycle.
New platform aims to improve livestock data collection and support national food security
Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks, poultry import bans, and slaughter delays are driving up meat prices across the country.
Over one million birds suffer in what investigators call one of South Africa’s worst animal welfare cases.