From 12-15 September this year, Aviana will be organising the International Poultry Expo at the Le Plus Grand Hall in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Being the world’s 47th largest country and the fourth-largest island, the country has enormous potential in the livestock and fisheries sector.
Livestock is widespread, with about 60% of rural families depending on it for their income. Animal production is dominated by extensive livestock rearing, pigs and poultry. There is also a growing modern poultry industry around the main cities.
The fisheries sector on the other hand, has more prominence along Madagascar’s western coast, particularly in the province of Toliara. There is also a good potential for the development of shrimps and prawns rising and for freshwater aquaculture, mainly for common carp and tilapia, in paddy fields, ponds and cages.
According to statistics from 2008, the overall meat production was estimated at 251,000 tonnes; milk at 530,000 tonnes and hen eggs at 19,000 tonnes. In regard to fishery and aquaculture, production totalled to 130,000 tonnes in 2008. Moreover, around 35,000 tonnes of fishery products are exported every year, with more than 50% of these being exported toward European countries, and the rest toward Japan, Mauritius and some Asian countries.
For more information and to register, visit: www.avianaafrica.com
