Ugandan poultry farmers livelihood threatened by feed prices

The ever rising prices in animal feeds are have a serious effect on the Ugandan poultry farmers and processors. The prices also vary depending on where you buy them from, there is also the problem of fake feeds coming onto the market, these fake feed have a serious effect on egg laying production.

It has been found that fake feeds contain fishfin, scales and bones and some of these fake feeds  even contain sorghum flour which has no nutritional value for chickens. The poultry feed dealers attribute the rising costs to the transportation and exportation of maize and high fuel costs. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers