Poultry Industry News: South Africa
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Register Now for IEC Cape Town SOUTH AFRICA - Registration is now open for the IEC Cape Town 2013 conference, at the Westin Hotel in Cape Town from 22-26 September 2013. ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Astral Foods Earnings Plunge on Rising CostsSOUTH AFRICA - Poultry producer Astral Foods on Monday reported an 82 per cent plunge in diluted headline earnings per share to 94c in the six months ended March as operating profit slumped 80 per cent despite a 5 per cent rise in revenue to R4.234bn....
Monday, April 22, 2013
Southern African Feed Manufacturers’ Association LaunchedSOUTH AFRICA - The Southern African Feed Manufacturers’ Association (SAFMA) was officially launched following an agreement at the 4th Global Feed & Food Congress in Sun City, South Africa, under the auspices of representatives from the International...
Friday, April 19, 2013
South African Chicken Producers Intensify Bid for Import DutiesSOUTH AFRICA - South African chicken producers are once again fighting against cheap imports by asking for drastic increases in import duties....
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
SA Chicken Producers Seek Tariffs LifelineSOUTH AFRICA - The future of local poultry producers is being put at risk by a large and rapid increase in the volume of imports of "extremely low-priced" frozen poultry meat, and they say they need a huge hike in import duties to stay in business. ...
OIE Reports LPAI, HPAI in Eastern and Western CapeSOUTH AFRICA - The South African veterinary authorities have reported nine outbreaks of low pathogenic avian influenza at farms in Easter Cape Province and Western Cape Province and two outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Western Cape Province,...
Thursday, April 11, 2013
GFFC: Role of Agriculture in Feeding a Growing Population SOUTH AFRICA - Novus International, Inc. has sponsored Dr Marty Matlock, Professor of Ecological Engineering, University of Arkansas (UA) and Executive Director, UA Office for Sustainability, at the 4th Global Feed & Food Congress (GFFC), which began...
Critical Feed Issues Under Discussion at IFRMSOUTH AFRICA - The 6th annual International Feed Regulators Meeting (IFRM) meeting organized by the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) brought together feed...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Novus Participates at Global Feed, Food CongressSOUTH AFRICA - Novus International, Inc is excited to participate of the 4th Global Feed & Food Congress (GFFC) which will take place on 10 to 12 April in Sun City. ...
Friday, April 05, 2013
Union Asks for EU, Brazil Chicken Import TariffsSOUTH AFRICA - Members of South Africa’s Food and Allied Workers Union staged a march on Wednesday and asked the country’s Trade and Industry Ministry to impose tariffs on chicken imports from the European Union and Brazil. ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
South Africa's Ag Minister to Open CongressSOUTH AFRICA - The 4th Global Feed & Food Congress (GFFC), organized by the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF), with technical support by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will take place for first time on the...
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Afgri Poultry Unit Hit by Cheap ImportsSOUTH AFRICA - Agricultural services and diversified foods group Afgri plans to use its expanding African footprint to compensate for the struggling poultry sector that has been hit by cheap imports largely from Brazil, it said in its interim results...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Rainbow Chicken Raises ZAR3.9 Billion Through Rights IssueSOUTH AFRICA - Rainbow Chicken has successfully raised 3.9 billion rand (ZAR) through a rights issue, the company said....
Friday, February 08, 2013
Union Resolves to Protect Local Firms from Poultry ImportsSOUTH AFRICA - The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) leadership held an informative and insightful meeting with the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the three major poultry companies (i.e. Rainbow Chickens Division, Astral Food Poultry and Country...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Minister Announces New Minimum Wage for FarmworkersSOUTH AFRICA - The new minimum wage for farmworkers for the next three years has been pegged at R105 per day, the Minister of Labour Mildred Oliphant announced in Pretoria....
Friday, February 01, 2013
Imports Hit Rainbow Chicken's ProfitsSOUTH AFRICA - Rainbow Chicken expected earnings a share and headline earnings a share for the six months to December last year to be between 65 per cent and 85 per cent lower than in the previous comparative period, the company said. ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Minister Calls for Restraint in Farmworkers' ProtestSOUTH AFRICA - Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has called on parties in the Western Cape agricultural sector to settle their industrial disputes through talking and negotiations. ...
Thursday, January 10, 2013
SmartTray: Driving Performance, Uniformity in the HatcherySOUTH AFRICA - “It’s quality that counts!” Midway Chickens’ Lee McGrath was very certain of what he expected for his hatchery, when he placed his first order for Pas Reform’s antimicrobial Smart setter trays in Bela Bela, South Africa, a year...
Friday, December 28, 2012
South Africa Withdraws Tariffs on Brazilian ChickenSOUTH AFRICA - The South African government have definitively rejected the anti-dumping duties application on Brazilian imports of whole and boneless cuts which have been imposed since February 2012. ...
Monday, December 24, 2012
No SA Action on ‘Dumped’ ChickensSOUTH AFRICA - The South African government has decided not to impose additional duties on the import of Brazilian chickens — a decision which will stop Brazil’s complaint to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in its tracks....
Friday, December 14, 2012
Cargill Invests in Expansion of Animal Nutrition PresenceSOUTH AFRICA - Cargill's animal nutrition business has announced an investment of approximately US $20 million in South Africa. Cargill has gained a majority shareholding and assumed managerial control of NuTec Southern Africa, its existing joint venture...
Thursday, November 15, 2012
South Africa, Brazil Discuss Chicken Exports in Bilateral Trade TalksSOUTH AFRICA - Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies on Tuesday held talks with his Brazilian counterpart, Fernando Pimentel, where concerns around the anti-dumping investigations into Brazilian chicken exports to South Africa were thrashed out....
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Boost for Women Farmers in South AfricaSOUTH AFRICA - The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has set a target of establishing 15,000 smallholder producers, with a particular focus on women....
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Further Avian Influenza H7N1 Outbreaks in South AfricaSOUTH AFRICA - A further 1067 cases of low pathogenic avian influenza H7N1 in South Africa have been reported to the OIE....
Friday, September 28, 2012
Serfontein Kuikens Expands with Pas ReformSOUTH AFRICA - Dekalb Layer Breeder producer, Serfontein Kuikens, will extend its collaboration with Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies this year, with the expansion of hatchery operations at Potchefstroom, to meet growing demand for the Dekalb Amber Link...
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