HOLDING OUT: To meet high Taiwanese demand for white chicken meat, some food businesses are relying on their own reserves until local production can be increasedBy Yang Yuan-ting and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Food processing businesses are worried about supply issues due to avian flu concerns over chickens imported from the US and Canada, which account for most of Taiwan’s imported white chicken meat.
Taiwan imported about 250,000 tonnes of white meat in 2020 and about 180,000 tonnes last year.
Only 29,810 tonnes of white meat were imported in the first two months of this year due to avian flu, a decrease of 17 percent from 35,048 tonnes in the same period last year.
Taiwan in 2005 opened its market to imported white meat, lowering prices and driving a boom in the consumption of white meat,