Operators within the poultry meat provide chain are struggling to take care of manufacturing ranges due to the very excessive power and feed costs.

Outgoing AVEC President Paul Lopez asks decision-makers to prioritise meals and poultry meat manufacturing, to ensure inexpensive and steady provide within the weeks to come back. Because it occurred through the Covid-19 disaster, the poultry meat sector is dedicated to working with the European Establishments to offer a steady provide of high-quality and inexpensive poultry merchandise to the EU residents. However with out intervention from coverage makers, that is and can proceed to be extremely difficult. 

The poultry meat producers are affected all alongside the availability chain, by unprecedent enhance of prices of power, (particularly pure gasoline, gas, and electrical energy), CO₂, packaging and exterior labour which threaten the continuity of the manufacturing. Vitality and gasoline provide particularly is important for main breeding of poultry to take care of the welfare of the birds. 

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has additionally resulted in a considerably elevate of the feed costs, which signify 70% of the manufacturing price of poultry. This has led to a state of affairs the place farmers might desire to cease the manufacturing within the coming weeks relatively than taking the chance of huge monetary losses. There are big difficulties to cross the extra prices via the availability chain, so the help of the authorities is urgently wanted.

“Coverage-makers ought to proceed to prioritise the poultry meat sector for entry to each power and feed, just like Covid disaster the place poultry was thought of as a vital sector. 

Nonetheless, the straightforward entry to power and feed materials will not be ample. If inexpensive and steady costs can’t be assured the survival of the sector is at stake. The Fee should help Member States to intervene to deliver power costs affordable ranges, enhance liquidity on power markets, diversify power provide, and search for options similar to inserting a cap on costs for power/feed. Sustainable manufacturing is our precedence, and we see our sector as a part of the answer in relation to local weather change. Subsequently, we ask the authorities to strongly help our sector to develop and speed up the transition in direction of sustainable sources of power, to restrict the dependence to overseas fossil gas and feed suppliers, and enhance the resilience of the sector”, concludes outgoing AVEC President Paul Lopez.

Supply: AVEC