SA poultry flooding Zim ‘likely’ to be expired
Much of the R128 million worth of chicken that Zimbabwe imported from South Africa in nine months last year may have been “grey” or “expired, according to the the Zimbabwe Poultry Association (ZPA).
The statistics were released by the South African Revenue Service (Sars) and were not reported in Harare, indicating that the imports between January and September 2015 were largely illegal.
ZPA chairperson Solomon Zawe told The Source, a news-gathering service in Harare: “According to the Sars data, an average of 196 tonnes of chicken have entered the country each month. These imports therefore represent eight percent of the formal broiler market and hence the impact on the sector.”
He said local poultry producers were also hurt by cheap imports from Brazil.