SOUTHERN AFRICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION

The Southern African Poultry Association was established in 1904 in Kimberley. Its main function is to be a platform for collective action for the industry at large. It is an over-arching body which endeavours to act where similar action by individual members and companies will lead to duplication and therefore stream-lined, co-ordinated and organised activity.

Some of the aspects which SAPA acts in would be:

v      instituting tariffs against imported product;

v      influencing Agricultural Trade Policy developments with regard to free trade agreements;

v      curtailing smuggling of poultry products from abroad into South Africa;

v      designing Codes of Practice around food safety issues;

v      tending to veterinary matters and communicating to the industry in terms of collective action and proper support structures with Government and elsewhere;

v      feed matters: information to members on a regular basis with regard to feed cost;

v      training and technology transfer (the facilitation of training in the country through staging courses by other agents and supporting the training through contributions towards training institutions);

v      statistics for collective use with limited degree of management application;

v      congresses, exhibitions and workshops;

v      member liaison and information dissemination;

v      generic advertising of eggs;

v      the advancement of developing poultry farmers through the Development Poultry Farmers’ Organisation leg of SAPA;

v      target group liaison i.e. lobbying;

v      individual committees attend to sub-sector collective specifics;

v      Codes of Practice;

v      Accreditation of Hatcheries;

v      monitoring of developments in the industry’s environment.

The Poultry Association is a medium and catalyst for any matter the industry wishes to collectively address.

e-mail: sapa@sapoultry.co.za

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