AMMAN — There is an unprecedented decrease in demand
for poultry in the
local market, reported poultry breeders who claimed that the
drop is surprising, considering that there was no change in prices.
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Abdul Majeed Samara, general manager for Jordan
poultry processing and marketing company Hammoudeh, said that the declining
demand “is sudden and unprecedented, without any obvious reason”.
“There is almost a 30-percent drop in demand for
poultry in the past three months”, he told
Jordan News. He insisted that the
prices did not change, but that the “purchasing demand has decreased significantly”.
Samara pointed out that most poultry producers sell
chicken at a price “less than the cost, therefore immediate action needs to be
undertaken to protect the sector”.
Abdul Shakour Jamjoom, the head of the Poultry
Investors Association, attributed the weak domestic consumption of chicken to
the “scarcity of liquidity, and the decline in the citizens’ purchasing power”.
He told
Jordan
News that bolstering food security domestically should also include reducing
taxes.
“The 5 percent tax imposed on the poultry sector
should be paused, at least until international feed prices and shipping costs
return back to normal averages,” he explained.
Member of the board of directors of the
Poultry Breeders Union, Hassan Bu Diqer, told
Jordan News that besides the lack of
purchasing power, “the low price of imported chicken is affecting the demand
for local chicken”.
“You can notice various offers in the markets on
imported chicken,” he said. “That is because of the lack of control over feed
quality.”
“They use mixed feed or animal feed, which is
cheaper than vegetable feed, which is the type we are supposed to use in
Jordan, based on consumer protection regulations”, he explained.
He said that
“some factories import chicken, claiming that it is for the purpose of
manufacturing, so that it is not subject to customs, where in fact it gets
leaked into the market, and sold at lower prices.”
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