South African feed sales down as poultry sector suffers

摘要

Faced with imports, avian influenza and drought, weaker demand from South Africa's poultry producers pulls feed sales down.Sales of animal feed in South Africa last year contracted for the first time in the history of the Animal Feed Manufacturers Association (AFMA).While demand for feed from across livestock sectors was lower, it was from the poultry industry — accounting for more than 60 percent of sales and hit by growing imports, avian influenza and drought — that demand was particularly weak, leading to AFMAreporting sales of 6.477 million tons, a decrease of 6.2 percent compared with the year before.