Dr. Géraldine Mukeshimana, Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture during the Conference.
Kigali: From the 1st to 3rd October 2019, Rwanda is hosting Poultry Africa 2019, a major international exhibition and conference event for Sub-Saharan Africa.
The event is coming back to Rwanda following a successful hosting of the first Poultry Africa in October 2017 where it won great appreciation and set a solid basis for a return to Kigali this year.
Poultry Africa 2019 will take place at Kigali Convention Centre and is organised by VNU Exhibitions Europe with the key support of Rwanda’s Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) in collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rwanda. The three day event will consist of three parts: a highly professional Leadership Conference, the Expo, as well as Technical Best Practices Seminars in the poultry industry.
Poultry Africa is part of the brand-name VIV worldwide international network of events organised by VNU Exhibitions Europe, presenting “Feed to Food” event concepts in all the major emerging animal husbandry markets.
The official opening of the Poultry Africa 2019 takes place on Wednesday, the 2nd of October at 12 o’clock in the Concourse of the Kigali Convention Centre (KCC).
On Thursday the 3rd of October, two major events are scheduled:
1) A press conference starting at 10 a.m. where conference organisers will talk more about the event and the future of poultry industry in Africa and answer questions from the media.
2) An egg promotion event at 3 p.m., which will showcase the nutritional benefits of eggs.
Poultry Africa 2019 will bring together over 2000 participants and exhibitors from over 50 countries worldwide; including poultry professionals, poultry business operators, poultry farmers, inputs manufacturers and suppliers, distributors, processors, packaging and equipment manufacturers as well as animal scientists.
The conference is discussing current issues in the poultry industry while the exhibition features 128 companies from Europe, USA, Asia, and Africa including those from Rwanda.
The Government of Rwanda recently elaborated a Livestock Master plan that identified poultry as one of the avenues that can be efficiently used to improve national food security through the provision of high quality protein as well as income generation for small scale farmers. (End)