PAN laments harsh economy’s impact on poultry sector

By Chinedu Adonu

ENUGU — The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) has raised interest implicit the harsh economical conditions threatening the endurance of the poultry industry, peculiarly successful the South East.

The alarm was sounded astatine the 2025 Eastern International Poultry Summit held successful Enugu with the taxable “Professionalising and Building Efficiency for Growth.”

PAN’s National Vice President (South East), Sir Izuolisa Onu, said the assemblage has been deed hard by precocious ostentation and deregulation, which person driven up the outgo of earthy materials and eroded user purchasing power.

“These factors person reduced income and marketing, arsenic galore Nigerians inactive bash not spot poultry products arsenic regular essentials. The manufacture has besides struggled with the precocious outgo and near-unavailability of earthy materials,” Onu said.

He, however, commended the national authorities for allowing atom importation, which helium said has provided alleviation and helped prolong implicit 80 per cent of poultry farms nationwide.

Despite the challenges, Onu emphasized that the poultry assemblage remains captious to Nigeria’s economy, contributing astir 25 per cent of the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (AGDP).

Enugu State Commissioner for Agriculture and Agro-Industrialisation, Mr. Patrick Ubru, described the acme arsenic timely. He said the authorities authorities nether Governor Peter Mbah has prioritised agriculture arsenic a maturation operator done investments successful technology-enabled hold services and strategical partnerships.

Also speaking, the Enugu State Chairman of PAN, Chief Sunny Ezeobiorah, noted that the rising request for macromolecule successful the South East and crossed Nigeria places poultry farmers successful a strategical presumption to research caller opportunities.

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