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Kebbi government subsidises animal feed

Nigeria - The government in Kebbi (north-western Nigeria) has purchased animal feeds worth 45NGN million (approximately $300,000 USD) for distribution to pastoralists at subsidised prices. Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Nomadic Fulani, Alhaji Nasiru Masama disclosed this in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday.

Masama said the program was part of efforts to enhance animal protein and extend democratic dividends to pastoralists.

He said the animal feed which included cattle salt, bags of dust and seeds were stored in zonal depots.

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CPF invests in Africa

Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc, the SET-listed flagship of the Charoen Pokphand Group, has added African countries to its investment plan next year as part of its aggressive expansion abroad.

It will start with feed and chicken farm operations in Kenya and Tanzania, where each operation is expected to cost US$3 million initially, said Adirek Sripratak, president and chief executive officer of CPF.

CPF teams including Mr Adirek have visited the two countries several times over the past few years and found strong business potential in supplying meat for their combined population of 82 million.

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Western Cape government help drought sufferers

South Africa - The Western Cape government says it will pay the transport costs of farmers in the province who want to donate feed to the drought-stricken Southern Cape.

Agriculture MEC Gerrit van Rensburg said on Tuesday the measure was independent from national government's disaster relief programmes.

It should be seen as "a Christmas gesture" from his department to the Southern Cape farmers, he said.

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PAZ bemoans shortage of affordable maize

Zambia - The shortage of cheap and affordable maize in the last 10 months made its use in poultry feeds increasingly unjustified in economic terms, Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ) executive secretary Mathews Ngosa has said.

Reviewing the performance of the poultry sector this year, Ngosa said there was need to come up with alternative substitutes for conventional feed inputs (maize and soya beans) for production costs to be reduced in the poultry industry.

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Poultry firm invests R70m in processing plant, support services

Poultry producer Sovereign Foods, formally known as Rocklands Poultry, has made a multimillion-rand invest- ment in its processing plant and support services, creating the capacity to process up to 60-million birds a year, almost doubling the number of jobs sustained by its Uitenhage factory and surrounding farms.

The investment of nearly R700-million over the past three years in the processing plant, farms and the hatchery has seen the installation of one of the fastest processing lines in the world, Sovereign Foods CEO Mike Davis says. The equipment was supplied by German company Stork Food Systems, and can process up to 12 000 birds an hour.

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