Daily Monitor
Wednesday April 21 2021
Summary
Mr Zack Munyambu, the Kiambu Poultry Farmers’ Cooperative Association director, told Business Daily that the Kenyan government needed to protect its farmers from imports amid restrictions occasioned by the second curfew.
Data from Uganda Bureau of Statistics indicate that between 2014 and 2018, Uganda’s poultry production capacity increased to 42.9 million birds with 87.7 per cent of these being indigenous.
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Kenyan traders have asked their government to tighten the ban on Uganda’s poultry imports.
The demand comes just days amid talks in which Kenyan officials were in Uganda last week to discuss trade barriers on a number of products including sugar, maize and milk.
Traders defy Ugandan poultry products import ban
Kenyan traders are still importing poultry products from Uganda despite a ban imposed in January.
Through a memo issued to stakeholders, the Directorate of Veterinary Services stopped all chicken, meat and egg importation to cushion local producers.
Tuesday April 20 2021
By KEVIN ROTICH
Kenyan traders are still importing poultry products from Uganda despite a ban imposed in January.
Through a memo issued to stakeholders, the Directorate of Veterinary Services stopped all chicken, meat and egg importation to cushion local producers.
Kenyan traders are still importing poultry products from Uganda despite a ban imposed in January.
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Uganda’s YoKuku has been smuggling processed chicken to Kenya, and they are selling them in their outlets in Nairobi’s Kawangware, Umoja, Roysambu, Kitengela among other locations.
Despite the suspension of poultry imports from neighboring countries, unscrupulous dealers have started putting Kenyan lives at a risk.
Uganda’s YoKuku has been smuggling processed chicken to Kenya, and they are selling them in their outlets in Nairobi’s Kawangware, Umoja, Roysambu, Kitengela among other locations.
Local pork and fish importers are also suspected to be participating in this vice as Ugandan chicken is available on their shelves across the country including Mombasa.
Diplomatic Row Brews as Kenyan Traders Block Ugandan Imports
President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) and President Yoweri Museveni during a past summit in Uganda.
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Tensions are high between Kenya and Uganda after traders from either country called for a block of importations on goods from the other.
A report by
People Daily on Tuesday, December 15, indicated that poultry traders were pushing for the suspension of poultry products imports from Uganda.
In a statement, Kiambu Poultry and Co-operative society Secretary Zack Munyambu noted that the country had enough production to last till the second half of 2021.
He further noted that the country had a surplus of 253 days in chicken inventory.