“The sector will provide sufficient quantities of festive poultry for the French at Christmas”, reassures the inter-professional association

Several recent outbreaks of avian flu, particularly in Vendée and Dordogne, have been reported.

“The sector will provide sufficient quantities of festive poultry for the French at Christmas“, affirmed this Friday on franceinfo Yann Nédélec, general director of the Anvol inter-professional association (national inter-professional broiler poultry association), while recognizing a situation “more worrying than last year“. Nearly twenty outbreaks have broken out since August, including six in recent days, notably in Vendée and Dordogne.

“We are not yet in a state of crisis as we experienced two or three years ago. But in Vendée in particular, we are approaching a very evolving situation“. He confides that “as soon as autumn arrives, we are subjected to this stress, to this anxiety, because there are these migrations of wild birds“.
Each outbreak detected leads to the establishment of a regulated zone prohibiting the installation of new animals and forcing certain breeders to undergo periods of crawl space, synonymous with economic losses. The inter-professional organization calls on the State to guarantee compensation for breeders indirectly affected: “This is work that we are carrying out hard with the Ministry of Agriculture to obtain a firm commitment“, he clarified. “We must not be heading towards a large-scale crisis. But even during the toughest crises, professionals manage to mobilize“, concluded the director of Anvol.