P4m poultry abattoir fails to take off :: Mmegi Online

A P4 million chicken abattoir meant for the Serowe-Palapye (SEPHA) Poultry Marketing Cooperative Society members has failed to take off the ground. The failure to construct the abattoir has led to the farmers losing as everything has come to a halt. The Cooperative Society members are in the dark after government promised that the abattoir would be operational in 2014.

According to a source, officers from the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) informed them that the contractor engaged to build the abattoir was left with the finishing touches. The poultry abattoir was supposed to be opened by April or May 2015 but it failed.

“Our main worry as poultry farmers is that we do not have an abattoir where our chickens can be slaughtered. We have been told to raise five percent of what the government had spent and we have been ready to pay since 2013.

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