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Govt announces chicken importers

Jun 23, 2012 News

Government, via a press release on Thursday, announced the names of the 12 businesses that were licensed to import one million pounds of chicken.
The names of the importers were listed as Nova Scotia Manufacturing, Andrea Shalieza Karran, Balkirson Ramdass, Deolall Rampersaud, Winston Roberts, Sewlall Seepersaud, Didco Trading Limited, Lynden Fung, Goolmohamed Bacchus, Friendship Hotel, Ismail Janmahamad and Nigel’s Supermarket.
This revelation follows complaints made by local chicken farmers who said that they were being sidetracked by the government. Some had stated that they were going to close their businesses.
The press release read that the Ministry of Tourism and Commerce wishes to inform the public that chicken importation was never restricted by Government and that the commodity attracts one hundred percent duty to protect the interest of local producers.
According to the statement the Ministry is always in receipt of license to import the commodity, and that some persons reluctantly undertake to import chicken at the prescribed duty. But the majority is advocating a sixty percent reduction of tariff to enable them to be competitive on the local market.
It further read that in response to the recent hike in price for chicken on the local market and following the consultation of a major player in the industry Government, on June 13, last, granted an initial approval for all the pending applications, 12 in number, to import a limited amount of chicken for the period of three months to combat the scarcity of the commodity.
The importers  were granted a fifty percent waiver on duty instead of sixty percent that they had requested by way of applications for permission to import eight million pounds of  chicken over the next six months. The licenses will expire on September 12, 2012 to prevent hoarding of permits by person who may be inclined on future vagaries of the market.
Local chicken farmers had stated that they were suffering millions of dollars in losses after most of their chicken had a high mortality rate and not gaining weight.
They claimed that the nutritious content of the feed locally manufactured had dropped and that the baby chicks were not being vaccinated at the hatcheries.  In response to the farmers’ claims, the Guyana Livestock Development Authority GLDA said that the preliminary results of investigation launched into the accusations revealed otherwise.

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