Importation of chicken killing us - Poultry farmers

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• kwabena 7 years ago

  Save the local poultry industry

  Save the local poultry industry

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• Sinclear 7 years ago

  more competition mean lower prices for people so we all welcome healthy competition

  more competition mean lower prices for people so we all welcome healthy competition

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• Edi 7 years ago

  stop crying like baby's farmers

  stop crying like baby's farmers

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• Earl Jones 7 years ago

  Why is foreign chicken, despite the logistical cost, cheaper than Ghana chicken?
  
  Make Ghana chicken cheaper and of a better quality and nobody will buy imported chicken.
  Imported chicken drives the quality up.
  
  It will ...
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  Why is foreign chicken, despite the logistical cost, cheaper than Ghana chicken?
  
  Make Ghana chicken cheaper and of a better quality and nobody will buy imported chicken.
  Imported chicken drives the quality up.
  
  It will be unfortunate to ban good quality cheaper chicken so that low quality inefficiently produce ones can flood the market with more costly chicken.
  It dos not make sense. Have you never heard of specialisation? Produce what you can afford to compete on.
  
  And leave the products others can compete better to them.
  Protectionism does not work.

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• GG 7 years ago

  Imported chicken is grown on huge industrial scale farms, where they are forced fed fattening agents, hormones to grow faster and fatter. They are injected with water before packaging. Eventually, eating that kind of food wil ...
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  Imported chicken is grown on huge industrial scale farms, where they are forced fed fattening agents, hormones to grow faster and fatter. They are injected with water before packaging. Eventually, eating that kind of food will be seriously detrimental to health. Imported food pollute Planet Earth and cause global warming, cost much needed hard currency and destroys the local farming economy. Google the subject and you will not eat imported chicken again after reading how they are produced!!

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• Obroni 7 years ago

  We don't have cheap maize nor does, our temperatures and humidity are too high, we don't have money to cool our stalls, we don't have export for expensive chicken parts because we can't control disease's and still we want to ...
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  We don't have cheap maize nor does, our temperatures and humidity are too high, we don't have money to cool our stalls, we don't have export for expensive chicken parts because we can't control disease's and still we want to be able to compete against other countries who have all that ? Are we just stubborn or not smart. It's like northern Europe complaining that the government should come to their help to produce mango, bananas and pineapples.

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• Martin 7 years ago

  Once again, Ghanaians' insatiable appetite for things foreign is on the verge of killing a local industry. The poultry industry has to educate the Ghanaian consumer that the chickens raised in the country are better and tasti ...
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  Once again, Ghanaians' insatiable appetite for things foreign is on the verge of killing a local industry. The poultry industry has to educate the Ghanaian consumer that the chickens raised in the country are better and tastier because they are free-range and devoid of hormones and other chemicals. On the other, chickens from Europe are stockpiled in chicken coops and fed with chemicals to fatten them up before slaughter. Given all these information, it will surprise me if Ghanaians continue to consume imported chicken.

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• Boss 7 years ago

  Sorry Martin, broiler chicken in Ghana are also fed with hormones and other chemicals. Most of the processes are similar to what is abroad.

  Sorry Martin, broiler chicken in Ghana are also fed with hormones and other chemicals. Most of the processes are similar to what is abroad.

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• Obroni 7 years ago

  Who can afford that free range hormone free chicken you and I ? The rest of Ghana needs cheap affordable protein w
  Which is imported chicken

  Who can afford that free range hormone free chicken you and I ? The rest of Ghana needs cheap affordable protein w
  Which is imported chicken

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• obele 7 years ago

  Only God knows how long those burger chicken have been in fridges. 20 or more years I guess.

  Only God knows how long those burger chicken have been in fridges. 20 or more years I guess.

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• pk 7 years ago

  Produce and sell at affordable prices and imports will just dwindle.

  Produce and sell at affordable prices and imports will just dwindle.

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• Enoch. O 7 years ago

  There must be someone who thinks he is making lots of money in the administration to refuse to let Ghanaian chicken producers help the country. Afterall the period of egg to table for chickens is eleven weeks or less. Why is ...
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  There must be someone who thinks he is making lots of money in the administration to refuse to let Ghanaian chicken producers help the country. Afterall the period of egg to table for chickens is eleven weeks or less. Why is Ghana still importing chickens when it can be done locally. I remember when Komla Gbedema first started the chicken industry in Ghana. He made the price affordable for Ghanaians. We did not need to import chickens then. It is a disgrace for this to be allowed to happen. Save the Poultry Industry. Long live Ghana.

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