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Poultry East Africa Limited, a poultry company based in Mayange, Bugesera District is heavily investing to reduce chicken imports in Rwanda to zero by providing chicks to farmers across the country.
“Two years ago, 100% of all layer chickens were imported, and because of what we are doing, we are going to reduce that to zero, and it’s the Government strategy to reduce imports, and do locally grown,” Neal Roper, the General Manager of Poultry East Africa Limited, and Managing Director of Chicktex Limited says.
Neal Roper, the General Manager of Poultry East Africa Limited
Neal says they have stocks of exotic eggs which they hatch to produce layers for local farmers and chicks produced that are sold at one day old, on top of that the hatchery produces broiler chicks or chicken grown for meat.