Business & Finance Club Magazine – Today’s Person -- Minister of Agriculture Dr. Fahd bin Abdelrahman reveals that his ministry is currently setting up a mechanism to transfer the organization of live chickens from some areas of production to slaughterhouses in other regions.

He noted during the opening of The third forum of poultry producers under the title «towards industry  ... Systematic  ... Sustainable » in Riyadh, to the application of the poultry sector a number of requirements on poultry projects that ensure the safety of the environment and citizens alike of any contamination or other, and coordinate with the secretariats of all the regions and the General Presidency of Meteorology and Environment Protection. He said that the strict application of the security system is one of the most important protective factors to reduce the spread of infectious diseases, and to fine the violated projects by the relevant committee in the ministry and the enforcement of whatever is signed by the penalties for such projects, as stipulated in the system of livestock in the Kingdom and its executive. He stressed that he had already been, since the circulation system of biosecurity, the signing of 46 projects has proved the death of the Ministry are contrary to this system.

He noted the development and activation of the role of associations in order to increase their number in various regions to provide services in the agricultural sector, and benefit from the methods of modern technology to expand the establishment of farms specializing in poultry production.

For his part, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Poultry Producers Abdullah Bakr Qadi, said that the poultry industry in the Kingdom have developed remarkably, indicating that it had become a modern industry and the volume of investment of 35 billion riyals a contribution of 12 per cent of gross national.