The poultry business in Nigeria is facing uncertainty due to the rising cost of feeds, thus the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) has called on the Federal Government to prohibit the entry of frozen food via the nation’s borders.
PAN clarified that the news that some dishonest importers were using the country’s poultry industry crisis to conspire with some Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) officers to bring in frozen food to be sold in open markets was not unrelated to its call for the government to outlaw frozen food.
Iyiola Mo-jeed, the chairman of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) Lagos State chapter, informed the New Telegraph in Lagos of this. According to him, PAN was in talks with the federal government about putting up a temporary fix for the issues poultry producers were having in order to keep the business from collapsing completely.
While pointing out that the country’s legal ban on the import of frozen food was still in effect, Mojeed accused some dishonest importers of diverting attention away from the country’s enormous import of frozen food.
The PAN helmsman stated that the government needed to ban importing frozen food and claimed that it was impossible to compare locally produced chicken with frozen turkey that had been stored with formalin.
He emphasized specifically that Nigerians’ need for chicken could be met by poultry farmers; they only needed government assistance to help their members get through the current crisis facing the poultry sector in their nation.
He did, however, congratulate the Lagos State Government for purchasing blast freezers and processing equipment to help poultry farmers preserve their chicks.
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“We are grateful to the Lagos State Government,” said Mojeed. They have helped our other farmers by helping to install blast freezers for them.These are the main issues facing the east coast at the moment. You continue to feed your fully mature birds as long as no dogs are approaching. And they begin to die the instant they reach a specific circumstance.
However, we are safe because these processing devices and blast freezers are being produced. You butcher and house your birds as soon as they are ready to be slaughtered. And in that sense, you are safe, Mojeed said.
We are unable to make a fair comparison between the frozen turkeys that are imported and preserved with formalin. We also understand what formalin is. The health of humans is endangered by formalin intake. Therefore, we want the government to help us completely prohibit frozen food imports. As long as the conditions are created that will support us, we can meet the demand.For this reason, we demand that the government halt the import of frozen food.
Additionally, express our sincere gratitude to the government for their assistance.
He pleaded with the federal government to reevaluate the egg per child policy implemented in all 36 federation states’ schools and to keep an eye on those states that are no longer participating in the program. The well-known chicken farmer emphasized, “I want to call on the state administration of Lagos right now.
They have made an effort to value the Lagos case. In order to provide students with the protein value of eggs, I also want them to investigate the idea of allowing one egg per child in schools.
There will be no more of it. We would want to request that the FG look into this. “States will follow suit, ensuring that chicken farmers are satisfied that at least their eggs are being sold.”
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