Africa-Press – Eswatini. One of Eagles Nest directors, Derrick ‘Junior’ Chester says they will continue to focus on local supply at a fair price although exports are much more attractive in terms of price currently.
Chester was reacting to this publication’s question regarding the company’s business amid the worst cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in South Africa. He said so far their company had not been affected by the outbreak of the virus yet. “For now we are secure in terms of production as long as we remain unaffected directly,” said Chester. He mentioned that should the SA markets have further outbreaks on their layer breeders they would look at a shortage in the second quarter of 2024.
Assistance
The director said so far they were able to carry on with their business despite the outbreak in SA. He said actually the virus had been there for many years, and they were able to survive it through the great assistance of the Veterinary Department under the Ministry of Agriculture in terms of preventing it to come to Eswatini. He said the department continued to do the same even this time around when the virus hit again. “I must mention again the Veterinary Department has done a great job during this period,” said Chester.
The director mentioned that in the past three months they had a record productions touching on 9 million eggs.
He said average production 2023 is 7.6 million eggs per month while average production in 2022 was 5.7 million eggs per month.
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