Covid-19: Millions of chicks destroyed in Ethiopia
Millions of chicks have been destroyed by poultry farmers in Ethiopia due to a severe drop in demand from the hotel sector, which is battling under the effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
A significant supplier of poultry products in the country’s capital Addis Ababa, EthioChicken, said it had to kill nearly 650,000 chicks recently, and estimated millions had been destroyed country-wide, reports Reuters, adding that the impact is extremely disrupting for the sector.
“This sector used to employ a vast group of society in different regions of the country, whether it is the youth or women, in all sorts of age groups,” Meba Gabriel Estifanos, a veterinarian, who also owns a small farm in Addis Ababa, said, adding, “Now, because we are not receiving day-old chicks as the supply chain is totally disrupted, the society employed by the sector is not working at all.”
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