Further difficulties in the situation of chicken and pig farming: this is what the CGPER is denouncing. Several breeders are currently seeing their project to set up in the animal sectors refused, and for good reason: the plant responsible for processing slaughterhouse waste no longer complies with European standards. The unions want to alert the public authorities.
Raising roosters on his farm: impossible for Damien Malet, farmer. He lacks authorization from the prefecture. “My project is to build a 300 m2 chicken coop and the problem is that I don’t have permission because the slaughterhouse can’t process the waste.”
A dead end that costs dearly. It is on this banana plot that the breeder would like to build his chicken coop “We are clearly exposed to the wind and with each cyclone it is always the same thing, I am forced to cut everything. There has been no regime since the beginning of the year. No income, not nothing”
The sticking point: the slaughterhouse waste treatment plant in Etang-Salé.
Obsolete, it cannot process more waste. Consequences: the prefecture no longer issues breeding permits. A situation denounced by farmers’ unions.We can no longer install young farmers to produce chicken when the market is really huge in Reunion, there is a market to be taken and what do we do? We bring in containers of meat to Reunion when everyone keeps telling us every day that the island has food sovereignty. We must achieve it; under these conditions we will not achieve it”, explains Jean-Michel Moutama, president of the CGPER.
A new factory should have been built several years ago. A project still in the pipeline. The prefecture confirms for its part the dilapidated state of the current installations. “The processing capacities of by-products effectively limit the authorized production of the department’s poultry slaughterhouses, hence the importance of modernizing these capacities.”
When contacted, the factory did not wish to comment at this stage. While waiting for a solution, farmers are forced to limit themselves to other crops.
