Millions Of Chickens Risk Dying As Poultry Farmers Lack Supplies Due To Lockdown
MILLIONS OF CHICKENS RISK DYING – Amidst the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus in China that has caused the nation to be on lockdown, millions of livestock may perish soon.
The coronavirus outbreak had already taken over 618 lives and infected over 30,000 people globally. In addition, health authorities reported over 15,804 patients have remained hospitalized with 841 of them were in critical condition.
Following China’s pork crisis, thousands of poultry farmers are now in a terrible situation. As the country shut down transportation, much-needed animal feed.
As the outbreak began to spread, authorities in China have shut down roads, highways, and long-distances bus trips. This, in turn, would create massive problems in the livestock sector.
According to a financial services company, INTL FCStone, the supply of soybean meal used to feed poultry was short to begin with. In addition, the extension of business shutdowns would highly worsen the shortage.
This is going to create massive problems in the livestock sector. Even if a local plant has resumed operations, it will still be longer than normal for delivery due to logistics problems
Darin Friedrichs, senior Asia commodity analyst at company INTL FCStone
Based on an article from CNBC, farmers in Hubei, the epicenter of the virus outbreak, were already in a “very distressed” situation. Last week, they wrote a letter that said transportation was basically paralyzed.
Along with this, most large-scale farms would face a severe shortage of feeds soon. Because of the development, the China Animal Agriculture Association requested feed producers to send 18,000 tons of corn and 12,000 tons of soybean meals to Hubei.
As per the article, poultry business is in “dire need” of feeds. Based on reports, existing stocks would only last between three to five days. If that were to happen, millions of chickens would die without new supplies.
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