Avian influenza running rampant
LOAD shedding and power disruptions have put tremendous pressure and additional costs on the South African poultry industry. This makes producing poultry products extremely expensive. For example, Astral Foods has spent an additional R919 million as a result of load shedding alone. This has obviously had a significant impact on the profitability and sustainability of the company.
To make matters worse, the poultry industry has been hit with an avian influenza epidemic.
AI is a viral disease of birds, including poultry. The abbreviation, “AI”, is frequently in the news and often refers
