• Government has put in place measures to deter importation of live chickens into the country.
• Government only allows importation of the parent stocks.
• The parent stocks are coming in from areas that are certified by the government.

Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ) has disclosed that the country is no longer importing frozen and live chickens following security measures that government has put in place.
Speaking in an interview with Money FM News, Association Executive Director Dominic Chanda explained that government only allows importation of the parent stocks, which is feed where the broiler and commercial layers come from.
Mr. Chanda said the parent stocks are coming in from areas that are certified by the government, adding that cases involving importation of frozen chickens that were pronounced at Kasumbalesa border post are no longer happening.
“We are not importing any chickens into the country, there are a number of security measures that government has put in place to deter importation of live chickens into the country. The government allows importation of the parent stocks.”
“The government has actually done its work, those cases that were pronounced especially at Kasumbalesa border post are not happening at the moment,” Mr. Chanda stated.
He added that it is the Association’s hope that this will continue because anything that is traded at Kasumbalesa is mostly meant for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) market.
“You will discover that the Congolese import things from wherever they want, and do the trading at Kasumbalesa because that is the trading area between Zambia and Congo. So those chickens were actually observed at Kasumbalesa but the fear was that product filtering back into the country,” he added.
Recently, Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) expressed concern that appreciation of the Kwacha against the United States dollar had created a favorable environment for imports of processed poultry products and Mechanically Deboned Meat, thereby negatively affecting the domestic market.