These videos caused a great deal of anger among the tweeters who considered this a crime that deserves punishment, while others demanded that the government intervene to save poultry industry Which is currently facing a major crisis, as a result of the lack of feed, and if it is found, it will be at very high prices, which makes the owners of poultry farms suffer severe losses.
Egypt is currently facing a crisis in fodder, most of which are imported from abroad due to global turmoil And irregular shipments, which resulted in a large shortage of corn, soybeans and other feed materials.
On Sunday, the Council of Ministers held a meeting to discuss this matter and industry conditions poultry generally.
The Egyptian Minister of Agriculture, El-Sayed El-Qusayr, said in televised statements that the videos that appeared on social media sites of culling chicks are individual cases, but at the same time he acknowledged the existence of a crisis in the poultry industry.
He stressed that this crisis is the result of global conditions that have hindered operations import Shipping and Egypt are part of the world and are affected by this crisis like other countries, but it should not be exaggerated to portray the matter that there are mass cullings by poultry breeders for chicks, it is just an individual case.
It should be noted that the available data indicate that the percentage of feed deficit compared to what is required for poultry farms in Egypt Currently it is over 50 percent.
This crisis resulted in a significant increase in poultry meat prices In Egypt, the price of a kilo of them reached the equivalent of 3 dollars, while the price of eggs reached about a quarter of a dollar per egg.
This also resulted in a rise in the prices of livestock meat, since the crisis of fodder extended to them as well, as the price of a kilo of meat reached more than 10 dollars.
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The videos showed a group of people puttingchicks“Collectively inside sacks and then closing them on them, and one of those in charge of this commented during the filming of the video that “the sacks must be closed so that the chicks die quickly.”
These videos caused a great deal of anger among the tweeters who considered this a crime that deserves punishment, while others demanded that the government intervene to save poultry industry Which is currently facing a major crisis, as a result of the lack of feed, and if it is found, it will be at very high prices, which makes the owners of poultry farms suffer severe losses.
Egypt is currently facing a crisis in fodder, most of which are imported from abroad due to global turmoil And irregular shipments, which resulted in a large shortage of corn, soybeans and other feed materials.
On Sunday, the Council of Ministers held a meeting to discuss this matter and industry conditions poultry generally.
The Egyptian Minister of Agriculture, El-Sayed El-Qusayr, said in televised statements that the videos that appeared on social media sites of culling chicks are individual cases, but at the same time he acknowledged the existence of a crisis in the poultry industry.
He stressed that this crisis is the result of global conditions that have hindered operations import Shipping and Egypt are part of the world and are affected by this crisis like other countries, but it should not be exaggerated to portray the matter that there are mass cullings by poultry breeders for chicks, it is just an individual case.
It should be noted that the available data indicate that the percentage of feed deficit compared to what is required for poultry farms in Egypt Currently it is over 50 percent.
This crisis resulted in a significant increase in poultry meat prices In Egypt, the price of a kilo of them reached the equivalent of 3 dollars, while the price of eggs reached about a quarter of a dollar per egg.
This also resulted in a rise in the prices of livestock meat, since the crisis of fodder extended to them as well, as the price of a kilo of meat reached more than 10 dollars.