Impact of SARS-Con-V2 on the Poultry Industry in Kuwait: A Case Study.

Hanan Al-Khalaifah,Hamad Al-Mansour,Abdulaziz Ahmed,Gehan Ragheb,Noura Abdulmalek,Afaf Al-Nasser

doi:10.3389/fvets.2020.577178

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Abstract

The SARS-Con-V2 crisis influenced all aspects of life in the country including academics, economics, medical, and other fields. Poultry industry, whether locally or globally, is one of the investment fields that has been affected by the current SARS-Con-V2 crisis. As part of this global world, the local poultry companies in Kuwait have been impacted by restricting movements and transportation of the employees in between the company branches, exportation and importation of goods, bank closures, rise in the imported and local vaccination and drug prices, sales and marketing. The current case study paper sheds light on the impact of the current SARS-Con-V2 crisis on the local poultry industry, as well as the challenges and gaps in the local poultry value chain. It also propose solutions to mitigate this impact and to enhance sustainability of poultry products during other future global or local crisis.

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The continuous increase in the global human population increases the demand for poultry meat and eggs
The Impact pf SARS-Con-V2 on the Local Poultry Companies. As part of this global world, the poultry value chains of eggs and broiler meat of the local companies were affected by the current COVID 19 crisis
As the largest local poultry company in Kuwait, the impact of SARS-Con-V2 on company no. 1 started on March 10, 2020 when there was a sudden drop in the consumer demand of poultry products for the restaurants and retails owned by the company

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The continuous increase in the global human population increases the demand for poultry meat and eggs. The World Food Summit in 1996 has defined food security as “a situation when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for a healthy and active life” [4]. This healthy supply of poultry meat and eggs normally occurred through a poultry value chain that links all the poultry production elements to the final consumer. The coronavirus has a great impact on all aspects of the daily life, including all the elements of the poultry value chain of both eggs and broiler meat [5, 6]

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