Fellow Jamaicans who love chicken, the struggle is
indeed real. Chicken lovers, brace for impact as Chicken is coming!!!
The Minister of Agriculture Derrick Kellier has
announced plans to deal with the chicken shortage by the weekend starting
Saturday January 16th 2015 as reported in the article “Chicken
Leg Quarters To Be Imported, Government Grants Licence For Five Weeks”,
published Wednesday January 13, 2016, The Jamaica Gleaner.
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A part of this plan is the granting of import licenses
to import four containers of chicken Leg quarters per week for the next five
weeks. These leg quarters are to be imported from parts of the US of A and
Canada that have be given the green light to export chicken to Jamaica.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Derrick
Kellier made these comments during the official opening of the Best Dressed
Chicken Cumberland hatchery in Portmore, St Catherine, on Tuesday January 12th,
2016.
The plan is to import Chicken Leg quarters to satisfy
the unusually high demand for Chicken in Jamaica since Christmas 2015. If this
is the plan, then thing will be back to normal for Chicken lovers as I'd
predicted in my blog
article entitled “Why
the Jamaican Chicken Shortage of 2015 might be ending in 2016”.
So what of boosting local production?
Ministry
of Agriculture and Chicken Importation - Local production for long term Chicken
shortage salvation
The Ministry of Agriculture has not forgotten them, as
Jamaica does need to boost Jamaica’s capacity to grow enough chicken to feeds
its population instead of spending US dollars on imports!
The Ministry of Agriculture is collaborating with the
two main chicken processor in Jamaica, Jamaica Broilers and Caribbean Broilers
to boost local chicken production to satisfy the increasing local demand for chicken
as reported in the article “Gov't
implements measures to meet demand for chicken meat”,
published Tuesday, January 12, 2016, The Jamaica Observer.
The new Jamaica Broilers Best Dressed Chicken
Cumberland hatchery in Portmore, St Catherine is being built at a cost of Ja$14
million to produce some 625,000 baby chicks monthly or 7.5 million chickens
annually as reported in the article “Jamaica
Broilers Pumps $14m Into New Hatchery”,
published Tuesday January 12, 2016 by Tameka Gordon, The Jamaica Gleaner.
With these measures in place, Jamaica Broilers expects
the chicken shortage to ease by the weekend with normality returning over the
next three (3) weeks according to their competitors Caribbean Broilers. We'll
see if these measures will make any real difference or if it'll be half-baked
chicken plan, pun intended.
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