The Chief Executive of a Chicken Processing Company, Joseph Boakye Yiadom, has stated that the industry needs immediate attention or it will be reduced to around 3 per cent of its current size.

In an interview on Adom FM’s Burning Issues, he said the sector's challenges are enormous and cannot be handled by farmers alone.

Mr. Yiadom wants government to provide the resources needed to salvage the industry as soon as possible.

“The poultry industry needs serious attention else, the industry will collapse. It is not difficult to invest in the industry because whatever you invest, you will definitely have your money back”. 

“There is a factory under the 1D1F which about 6 months now, has not processed a single chicken, meanwhile, this is a factory which used to process about 2,000 chicken per hour,” he said.

The CEO also blamed the setback in the chicken industry to the country’s malls.

According to him, malls mix the imported ones with the locally processed ones, hence loss of interest in the locally processed chicken.

“Even the machinery we currently have, about 2,000 per day market capacity, but what is actually causing the collapse of our market is that most of the supermarkets and malls after importing the lower valued chicken from abroad, they mix it with our highly valued and fresh chicken and sell it to consumers”.

“We are pleading with the FDA to help fight this by instructing the various malls to indicate the specific company they buy their chicken from,” he appealed.