Saturday, January 7, 2012

Egypt: Crisis in the poultry sector after the appearance of 10 genetic alterations in the «avian flu»

[This article brings together several articles I have posted in the past 24 hours. The other articles are located here, here, here, here and finally, here.]

Saturday, January 7, 2012
Mohamed Shafie, Chairman of the Division of Poultry Industries Federation, said that the losses of the poultry sector amounted to 2.5 billion pounds, due to the emergence of 10 genetic alterations of the virus avian influenza, and the appearance of changes in bronchitis contagious "IB", pointing out that 70% of the total poultry production in Egypt is in farms and small businesses in danger of collapse, as they can not deal with the crisis of the small size of its own profit margin.

The Shafei in a statement to the "seventh day", that there was a clear indication for the emergence of the crisis, pointing out that the grow-take from 35 to 40 days, explaining that the bird will continue his excellent health until 25 days, and then deteriorate, indicating that the proportion of dead birds up from 10% to 15% on all farms and companies.

The Shafie that the companies were sent to the General Authority for Veterinary Services, to those situations, but they always face the lack of interest, pointing out that he must do the inventory of the infected Belvirs The effort is hard to find an effective vaccine eliminates the crisis that threatens the sector collapse.

For his part, said Engineer Saeed Mohamed, director of Misr Arab Poultry, the causes of the crisis and rising production costs, which is the high proportion of feed costs 45%, pointing out that most of them imported raw materials, in addition to an event a jump in prices by 30%, rising prices vaccine is almost 100%.

He added that the sector fattening face problems of 2010, the presence of virus was eliminated on 10% of poultry, and the most specialized companies in fattening began to decline by 60%, due to the high price of LPG by 60 pounds in the cylinder LPG, which is one of the most important elements in process to heat the broiler poultry.

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