By BUUMBA CHIMBULUA shortage of day-old chicks has hit the market countrywide despite more than 1.5 million chicks being offloaded every week, as prices of chickens shoot up due to increase in the prices of feedstock.A check in many outlets showed that customers were being turned away as huge volumes of orders were still pending.In some cases, entrepreneurs in poultry business have been placing orders for deliveries to be done after some weeks while some outlets were no accepting any orders as their lists were full.But the Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ) Executive Director, Mr Dominic Chanda, said that the market had been hit by high demand for chicks.The increased demand is an effect of Covid-19 as the Zambian poultry industry imports “grandparents” stock from Europe as well as the coming in of new layer of poultry farmers in the sector.Mr Chanda explained that the limited number of grandparents from Europe had caused a shake […]
DAY-OLD CHICKS’ SHORTAGE BITES
