Astral Foods foresees more than 400% jump in earnings amid bird flu jitters
SOUTH AFRICA – In a report to shareholders, Astral Foods expects growth in earnings by…
SOUTH AFRICA – In a report to shareholders, Astral Foods expects growth in earnings by…
SOUTH AFRICA – Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana said state veterinarians were still assessing whether South…
SOUTH AFRICA – Poultry producers have planned to import hatching eggs from Europe, after the…
SOUTH AFRICA – SA poultry farmers are scrambling to boost biosecurity measures to curb the…
SOUTH AFRICA – The bird flu outbreak at operations of a Gauteng poultry producer has…
ZIMBABWE – Irvine’s, one of Zimbabwe’s largest food producers, suffered losses of $7.2m after culling…
SOUTH AFRICA – Western Cape minister of economic opportunities Alan Winde said yesterday that his…
SOUTH AFRICA – Southern African integrated poultry producer Astral Foods is ridding itself of a…
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SOUTH AFRICA – The Western Cape Department of Agriculture has confirmed the presence of Highly Pathogenic Avian influenza (HPAI), type H5N8, on two ostrich farms in the Heidelberg area.
SOUTH AFRICA – Astral Foods says a second outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu virus has been confirmed and isolated at its poultry-breeding facility at the Grootdraai dam near Standerton in Mpumalanga.
ZIMBABWE – Zimbabwe and South Africa have lost over one million chickens to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), it has been learnt.
SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa continues to face the threat from bird flu, risking its trade with surrounding countries in chicken after it detected the disease on two commercial layer chicken farms in Gauteng and Mpumalanga.
RWANDA – The Ministry of Agriculture has temporally banned importation of poultry products, including chicken, eggs and chicken meat, from South Africa and Zimbabwe, following an outbreak of avian influenza, commonly known as Bird-Flu in the Southern African countries.