Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza says that government may have to resort to importing eggs in the interim, in a bid to ease a shortage created by an outbreak of the avian flu.
Didiza met on Monday with the country’s poultry industry and says that the outbreak will not affect the availability of chicken meat.Over 7.5 million chickens have reportedly been culled, in an effort to contain the outbreaks of two separate strains of“In the short term we’ve agreed that we will look at importation of table eggs but also fertilised eggs, so that it can allow us to go back into building our current stock. So, then we can have our layers for the eggs.
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