{"id":64942,"date":"2020-05-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64942"},"modified":"2020-04-30T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T09:59:33","slug":"poultry-farmers-reopen-hotel-restaurant-demand-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/poultry-farmers-reopen-hotel-restaurant-demand-government.html","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Relief: Poultry farmers demand reopening of restaurants, hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: Poultry farmers have demanded the government to reopen hotels and restaurants to increase aggregate poultry consumption, according to a news source. Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA)-North Vice Chairman (VC) Chaudhry Muhammad Fargham stated in a press conference that the COVID-19 pandemic had put the country\u2019s poultry industry in a dire situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-shares-details-businesses-exempted-from-section-144-notification.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab govt shares details on businesses exempted from Section 144 notification<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fargham revealed that the sector is facing immense monetary difficulties due to the consumption decrease and the various ongoing government bans. He informed the media persons that the poultry industry is important as it provides 40% of the total meat consumed in the country. The vice chairman has requested the government to formulate a plan to facilitate the said sector\u2019s employment and keep the coronavirus infection contained at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/federal-think-tank-identifies-areas-improve-economy-mitigate-economic-downturn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal think-tank identifies areas to improve economy, mitigate downturn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PPA VC also urged the government to allow the export of day-old chicks, chicken meat, eggs, and culled birds to Afghanistan to ensure revenue generation for the hard-hit poultry farmers. He also stated that hotels and restaurants account for a large part of chicken consumption, so should be <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-pondering-over-gradually-reopening-businesses-minister.html\" target=\"_blank\">reopened<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, additional demands put forward include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Providing new loans of PKR 400 million at 2-3% mark-up rate to medium-sized poultry farms<\/li><li>Deferring the sector\u2019s electricity bills for three months \u2013 to be paid in instalments within a year\u2019s time \u2013 without penalty<\/li><li>Waiving the import duties on soybean meal, vaccines, machinery, and medicines<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Poultry farmers have demanded the government to reopen hotels and restaurants to increase aggregate poultry consumption, according to a news source. Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA)-North Vice Chairman (VC) Chaudhry Muhammad Fargham stated in a press conference that the COVID-19 pandemic had put the country\u2019s poultry industry in a dire situation. Read: Punjab govt shares details on businesses exempted from Section 144 notification Fargham revealed that the sector is facing immense monetary difficulties due to the consumption decrease and the various ongoing government bans. He informed the media persons that the poultry industry is important as it provides 40% of the total meat consumed in the country. The vice chairman has requested the government to formulate a plan to facilitate the said sector\u2019s employment and keep the coronavirus infection contained at the same time. Read: Federal think-tank identifies areas to improve economy, mitigate downturn The PPA VC also urged the government to allow the export of day-old chicks, chicken meat, eggs, and culled birds to Afghanistan to ensure revenue generation for the hard-hit poultry farmers. He also stated that hotels and restaurants account for a large part of chicken consumption, so should be reopened. Furthermore, additional demands put forward include:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2232,13248,27786,26674,23527],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-economy","8":"tag-hotels","9":"tag-poultry","10":"tag-reopening-businesses","11":"tag-restaurants"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Poultry farmers demand reopening hotels, restaurants- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The poultry industry is urging the government to reopen eateries, so that poultry consumption increases, and their sector doesn&#039;t collapse.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/poultry-farmers-reopen-hotel-restaurant-demand-government.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Poultry farmers demand reopening hotels, restaurants- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The poultry industry is urging the government to reopen eateries, so that poultry consumption increases, and their sector doesn&#039;t collapse.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/poultry-farmers-reopen-hotel-restaurant-demand-government.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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