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Africa-Press<\/a> – Namibia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>THE poultry industry in Namibia, specifically egg producers, is currently facing headwinds due to cheap imported eggs. The Namibia Agriculture Union (NAU), in a statement said the imported eggs have been flooding both the formal and informal market, as they are sold way below the market value, which hampers the sustainability of local egg producers\u2019 businesses.<\/p>\n

According to the NAU, this has put immense pressure and created local surplus resulting in a drop in pricing that is not sustainable for egg producers.<\/p>\n

The long-term impact of overflooding of imports would force producers out of production and especially small-scale producers will be impacted as already seen in the dairy sector. The NAU lastly said that urgent measures are required to either support production or protect producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. THE poultry industry in Namibia, specifically egg producers, is currently facing headwinds due to cheap imported eggs. The Namibia Agriculture Union (NAU), in a statement said the imported eggs have been flooding both the formal and informal market, as they are sold way below the market value, which hampers the sustainability of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,16],"tags":[234,236,1033,233,1061],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-imports","tag-namibia","tag-production"],"yoast_head":"\nEgg production threatened due to cheap imports - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/egg-production-threatened-due-to-cheap-imports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egg production threatened due to cheap imports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press – Namibia. 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