Poultry Industry News: Kuwait
Monday, March 11, 2013
McDonald's Halal Chicken GCC Imports Exceed 12,000 Tons in 2012KUWAIT - McDonald's Arabia has announced imports of Halal chicken, to its 369 restaurants across the GCC region recorded more than 12,000 tons in 2012. The supply is up by 12.3 per cent from the previous year due to the growth of demand for chicken meals....
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Increase in Imported Feed Cost to Cause Hike in Poultry Prices KUWAIT - Several owners of local poultry companies have warned of skyrocketing prices in chicken and eggs at the local market due to recent hikes in the prices of soya and corn poultry feed imported to Kuwait, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily. ...
Friday, March 02, 2012
PAAFR Bans Poultry, Eggs from Sri Lanka, Australia KUWAIT - The Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAFR) announced the prohibition of all poultry, eggs, and chicks from Sri Lanka due to the emergence of bird-flu cases in that country....
Friday, February 24, 2012
Salmonella in Imported Chicken KUWAIT - A member of the Municipal Council, Jenan Bushahri, has revealed that a consignment of frozen chicken which was imported into the country through the Shuwaikh Port was unfit for human consumption, reports Annahar daily....
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Unprecedented Hike in Egg Prices KUWAIT - Mohammad Mutlaq Al-Dujaini, Member of the prices committee in the union of cooperative societies and Chairman of Ardiya cooperative society, said there has been no response to his repeated demands during the past two months warning of the dangers...
Monday, February 20, 2012
Food Prices Rise; Meat Price Rise InsignificantKUWAIT - The global food price index is up by two per cent, the first rise since July 2011, said the Kuwait Foodstuff Merchants and Manufacturers Union....
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Safety of French Beef, Poultry Imports Under DiscussionKUWAIT - The Kuwait Municipality's food safety committee discussed with French officials on Monday the safety of beef and poultry imports from France....
Monday, November 28, 2011
Kuwait Lifts Bans on Russian Poultry & EggsKUWAIT - The Committee for Food Safety at Kuwait Municipality has lifted a ban on the import of all types of birds, their derivatives, and eggs from Russia. ...
Friday, November 18, 2011
Kuwait Bans Poultry and Eggs from IranKUWAIT - Kuwait's Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources yesterday announced a ban on imports of birds and eggs from Iran....
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Support for Closure of Poultry Shops KUWAIT - A leading academic has come out in support of the government's recent decision to shut poultry shops....
Monday, September 19, 2011
No Orders to Close Poultry ShopsKUWAIT - It is reported that there have been no official moves to shut live chicken shops, following some reports to that effect last week....
Friday, September 16, 2011
Live Chicken Shops to be Shut KUWAIT - There has been a call to shut down live chicken shops following the recent announcement by FAO of the emergence of a new strain of the bird flu virus. Producers may slaughter birds on the farm but no longer in residential areas....
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Licence Refused for New Poultry SlaughterhousesKUWAIT - Kuwait Municipality has refused to license new poultry slaughterhouses in Al-Wafra....
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Kuwait Institute Develops Alternative to Antibiotics KUWAIT - The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) has launched a new project to develop products based on lactic acid bacteria as alternatives to antibiotics with the aim to boost poultry production safety. ...
Monday, August 23, 2010
Chickens Found Unfit for Consumption KUWAIT - The health of at least 50,000 people is at risk after it was disclosed 17,000 cartons of chicken believed to be unfit for human consumption were distributed in the local market, reports Al-Qabas daily....
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Kuwait's Naif Poultry Upgrades its HatcheryKUWAIT - Naif Poultry Co. has upgraded to AirStreamer technology from Petersime....
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Kuwait Stops Egg ShipmentsKUWAIT - Two shipments of eggs were not allowed into the country because the importing companies presented reportedly forged the 'country of origin' documents....
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Kuwait Curbs Poultry Prices and Bans ExportsKUWAIT - Ministry has called for a maximum limit for the price of chicken and export ban to help tackle record inflation. ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Kuwait Bans Export of Eggs to Curb Price HikeKUWAIT - Minister of Trade and Industry Falah al-Hajri issued Tuesday a decision banning the export of domestic eggs and the re-export of imported eggs to reduce the high prices of eggs by providing greater quantities of eggs in the domestic market. ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Poultry Firms Cry Foul At Compensation FailuresKUWAIT CITY - The Ministry of Finance allocated a budget of KD 12.8 million to the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) more than a month ago for the compensation of poultry companies that incurred huge financial losses...
Monday, July 16, 2007
Kuwaiti fund lauded for supporting Egypt''s poultry industryKUWAIT - Egypt's Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Amin Abadha, has lauded the support by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) to the country's poultry industry. ...
Monday, April 16, 2007
Live chicken to go back on saleKUWAIT - The Supreme Committee for Combating Bird Flu will soon declare Kuwait free of the disease and lift the embargo imposed on poultry farms where some infected birds were found. ...
Monday, April 09, 2007
Bird flu could prompt further import bansUAE - The trade minister of Kuwait is expected to ban poultry imports from Saudi Arabia, following growing fears in the GCC over the persistence of the bird flu virus among the region's poultry....
Monday, April 02, 2007
Union formulates strategy to control prices at cooperativesKUWAIT CITY - The Union of Con-sumer Cooperative Societies has formulated a strategy to control the prices of goods in cooperative societies, thwart attempts of traders to manipulate the prices of commodities and prevent the monopoly of goods to protect...
Monday, February 26, 2007
‘Cheap foreign offers have forced firms to rethink poultry price hike’KUWAIT CITY - The Poultry Companies Union may withdraw its decision to hike the price of eggs by 20 percent and has invited the Cooperative Societies Union to attend a meeting to discuss the issue, reports Al-Watan daily....
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