Case Study: Challenges within UAE poultry sector

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) poultry sector continues to grow modestly, despite facing serious challenges of which disease, and notably avian influenza, is the greatest problem. Domestic poultry meat production in the UAE is expected to have reached 45,000 metric tonnes (MT) in 2015, an increase of 5% over the previous year. Looking forward to 2016 production is expected to reach 46,000 MT. In general local production covers about 15% of the  country’s total market demand and the r