KARACHI: Pakistan Poultry Association has appealed to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to stop the closure of the poultry industry as poultry is the cheapest and high protein quality feed.
According to details, the Pakistan Poultry Association in a video statement released on YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, said that the government has decided to close the poultry industry, while there are more than 25,000 poultry farms across the country.
In a video statement, Pakistan Poultry Association said that 5 million chickens and 3.5 million eggs are obtained from 25,000 poultry farms every day, on which 5,000 tons of soybean meal are consumed daily, while there is no substitute for soybean meal for poultry feed.
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Pakistan Poultry Association said that the clearance was stopped on October 20. Exported soybeans and canola across the country have been stopped from clearance by the Food Department, which is expected to affect more than 600,000 tons of soybeans and canola worth $450 million.
The Poultry Association said that soybean and canola have been used in most countries of the world, including Pakistan, for the past 20 years. “We appeal to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif to intervene in the matter immediately. Soybean and canola vessels should be cleared immediately,” the association said.
The association said that if the soybean and canola at our ports are not cleared immediately, the trillions of investments made in the poultry industry, which does an annual business of 1200 billion and more than 15 lakh, will be lost. People will become unemployed, the association maintained.
