Al-Watania Aims to Double Output to Daily Million Poultry

Al-Watania, the giant poultry company in the Middle East is thrusting to increase its production capacity by additional 500.000 poultry per day to score an output of one million per day.

Al-Watania Co. General Manager Khalid Suliman Al-Rajhi whom his company has share of 40% in the local poultry market, revealed that the company has already submitted a request to the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture demanding increase of its poultry production to two folds of the present output. He mentioned that the company is waiting for the official approval of its request to commence the new project, which is expected to be established in another area than Al-Qassium where its present project exists. Anyhow, though Al-Rajhi refused to reveal the volume of investment allocated for the new project, it worth noting that the Al-Watania Co. investments in the present existing project amounted to SR 3 billion. The present project produces one million eggs per day with sales shares accounting for 20% of the total local eggs market. The company also owns two fodders factories with a capacity of 1800 tons/day and fertilizers factory with an output of 700 tons/day, in addition to (7) power generation stations.

Al-Rajhi criticized the impediments imposed by some Arab countries on poultry exports and mentioned that his company could not enter the Egyptian market due to the protection rules of national production. He said that Al-Watania products are available in the Gulf States markets and Yemen and currently the company is exerting efforts to export its products to Iraq.