Poultry Asociación Nicaragüense de Avicultores y Productores de Alimentos Agronomy poultry farms Chickens Ministerio Agropecuario y Forestal (Nicaragua) Ministry of Industry, Development and Trade - Nicaragua Eggs Exports & imports Unión Nacional de Agricultores y Ganaderos chicken meat imports poultry products Orlando Solórzano Unión de Productores Agropecuarios de Nicaragua

Nicaragua: Agreement Signed for Sale of Sorghum

Poultry producers have sealed an agreement with producers of sorghum which will triple the current sale volume.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The agreement also includes an increase in the price from $3.6 per quintal, the base price from last year.

Manual Alvarez, president of the Union of Agricultural Products of Nicaragua (UPANIC) gave details to the La Prensa of, "... an agreement with poultry farmers on the price of $14 per quintal of sorghum and the sale of approximately 1.5 million quintals because producers are confident that this season’s harvest will be better. "

Source: laprensa.com.ni

Goods

sorghum

Key entities

Ministry of Industry, Development and Trade - Nicaragua Ministerio Agropecuario y Forestal (Nicaragua) Unión de Productores Agropecuarios de Nicaragua Asociación Nicaragüense de Avicultores y Productores de Alimentos Unión Nacional de Productores Asociados Unión Nacional de Agricultores y Ganaderos

Countries

Nicaragua

Insight

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Panama's Poultry Industry

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Panamanians are spending over $125 a year on egg and chicken meat consumption, and in the last 10 years, annual consumption went from 63 to 87 pounds.

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Poultry Congress in Panama

October 2014

On November 18th and 19th companies in the poultry sector will gather together in Panama City to discuss issues such as trends in egg consumption, new production techniques and marketing.

From a statement issued by the National Association of Poultry Farmers of Panama (ANAVIP):

The Panamanian Poultry Industry

May 2013

In 2012 there was increases of 5.8% in the production of chicken meat and 1.59% in egg production.

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Russian Wheat Rejected as Poor Quality

August 2011

Nicaraguan businessmen refused to use a hundred thousand tons of fortified wheat that was donated by the Russian Government.

The donation from the Russian government aimed to lower the cost of bread, eggs and chicken.
With respect to this, Alfredo Velez, president of the National Association of Poultry Farmers (ANAP) argued, "Neither the baking industry nor the poultry industry will use it, because instead of lowering production costs, we urge would come."