Nyala – The Minister of Animal Resources at the State of South Darfur, Edam Abdel Rahman Adam, has excluded the existence of any relationship between recent meat price hike and exports.
In an interview with Niyala Broadcasting Station, the minister said meat price hike is attributed to many reasons, some going back to the eighties of the last century during the dry season which hit the country and some to the conflict in Darfur.
He added, those events forced traders to avoid selling through money transfers, a system of payment that had been used regularly.
He added, there are some other reasons such as the decline of the Sudanese pound exchange rate against the US Dollar, difficulty of transportation of cattle to central markets and other reasons.
“The state, however, is working earnestly to encourage investment in the field of animal resources through providing incentives, such as custom and tax exemptions, provision of inputs for abattoirs, boosting transportation, ” the minister said.
He added the state possess the largest strategic stock of cattle and could be a food basket for all the people of Sudan if the necessary infrastructure is made available.
On his part, the Director General of the Ministry, Dr. Nasr Al Deen Khojali, gave account of the preferential benefits of Sudanese animal resources and said all arrangements have been made for introducing artificial insemination equipment for improving cattle breed.
In another development, cattle traders have announced that prices of sheep offered for sacrifice range between SDG 350 and SDG 430, while it is expected that prices of cattle that could be offered for sacrifice to be around SDG 1,200.
Meat Exports Have Nothing to Do with Price Hike: Minister
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