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Cameroon: Ban on poultry transportation in Western region still effective

Cameroon: Ban on poultry transportation in Western region still effective
  • Comments   -   Wednesday, 20 September 2017 16:56

(Business in Cameroon) - Since March 13, 2017, date at which avian flu outbreak was declared in Foumbot, in the department of Noun, Western Cameroon, no other alert was given regarding the disease in the region which is the country’s largest poultry production basin.

However, poultry transportation is still banned in the department just like it has been banned in the department of Mifi since September 2016. This is in line with restrictive measures imposed by officials when the epidemic broke out.

Nowadays, some members of the professional association of poultry farmers (IPAVIC) are demanding the cancellation of these measures and ask the government to allow poultry farmers to resume production in this area from which 80% of the all poultry products produced in Cameroon comes.

“It has been six months already since the avian flu outbreak was declared in the department and nothing has happened since. It means that we can safely lift the ban in place in the ‘poultry department’. Not doing so could cost the sector much more. However, with the inflation of the price of raw materials, as long as the farmers have no exposure, they cannot invest or take risks”, Blaise Kamdoum, vice-president IPAVIC said.

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