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 reasonably priced and steady provide within the weeks to come back. Because it occurred in the course of 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 reasonably priced 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 provision chain, by unprecedent improve of prices of power, (particularly pure gasoline, gas, and electrical energy), CO2, packaging and exterior labour which threaten the continuity of the manufacturing. Power and gasoline provide particularly is essential for major 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 symbolize 70% of the manufacturing price of poultry. This has led to a state of affairs the place farmers might favor to cease the manufacturing within the coming weeks fairly than taking the danger of massive monetary losses. There are big difficulties to move the extra prices by way of the provision chain, so the assist of the authorities is urgently wanted. 
“Coverage-makers ought to proceed to prioritise the poultry meat sector for entry to each power and feed, much like Covid disaster the place poultry was thought-about as a vital sector.
Nonetheless, the straightforward entry to power and feed materials is just not enough. If reasonably priced and steady costs can’t be assured the survival of the sector is at stake. The Fee should assist Member States to intervene to carry power costs cheap ranges, improve 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 with regards to local weather change. Subsequently, we ask the authorities to strongly assist our sector to develop and speed up the transition in the direction of sustainable sources of power, to restrict the dependence to international fossil gas and feed suppliers, and improve the resilience of the sector”, concludes outgoing AVEC President Paul Lopez.
Supply: AVEC
