EDP to produce 140,000 chicks per month in Tete

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EDP to produce 140,000 chicks per month in Tete

5:04 CAT | 04 Aug 2018

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The chick rearing company Escolha Do Povo (EPD) is expanding its facilities in the central Mozambican province of Tete so it can double production to 140,000 chicks per month by June 2019.

The company released this figure during a visit to the company’s farm in Ulongue, in the district of Angonia, by President Filipe Nyusi.

EDP is a subsidiary of the South African company Country Bird Holdings and describes itself as “a fully integrated agro-processing and poultry project”. It has an installed capacity to produce 100,000 day old chicks per week and mill five tonnes of chicken feed per hour.

The company is also ramping up its production of laying hens to meet the growing demand for fertilised eggs. It should complete the new facilities for laying hens by December. In the first phase, it will have the capacity to produce 100,000 eggs per month. Constructing these facilities will cost 800,000 US dollars. Once operational, this part of EDP’s operations will employ ten permanent members of staff.

Producing so many eggs and chicks will lead to an increase in the demand for feed. Therefore, the company is to increase its output of chicken feed to 1,400 tonnes per year.

EDP states it will also construct an abattoir capable of slaughtering between 50,000 and 100,000 chickens per week. The construction budget is 3.5 million dollars. Once open, it will provide jobs for 44 Mozambicans.

In partnership with the Zambezi Valley Development Agency and the Catalytic Fund for Innovation and Demonstration, EDP is also planning to construct a soya bean factory capable of processing three tonnes per hour. This will create a further thirty jobs.

According to EDP, the company seeks to “supply local demand on all poultry related fronts and aims to establish itself as the only grain production, procurement and processing player in the Mozambican market”.

The company has worked alongside the government to meet common objectives which are supporting food security, creating employment and training, and developing small-scale agriculture and business opportunities.

President Nyusi is on a four-day working visit to Tete province, which is the last province covered in his annual tour of the nation.

Source: AIM