OREANDA-NEWS. August 17, 2009. As it was informed in the Ministry of Agriculture of Moldova, the poultry farmers of Moldova are ready to supply to Romania up to 30-40 million eggs every year and to CIS market - 5-7 thousand tons of the poultry meat, respectively.

They also insist to increase the production of meat and eggs, create jobs and fully use the production capacity, which is currently hampered by the illegal import of poultry meat through Transnistria. The founders of the Poultry Farmers Association has 7 poultry farms: "Avicola Saratenii Vechi", "Nina & ASN" (both from Telenesti), "Avicola Serbinica" (Piatra, Orhei region), "Orhideia Nani" (Cetroasa, Criuleni region), "Larsan Nor"(Truseni, Straseni region), "Vispas si Co" (Girbovet, Anenii Noi reigon) and "Lux-SP" (Abaklia, Basarabeasca region). The poultry farms-members of the Poultry Farmers Association employ about 5 thousand people.

They annually produce about 17 thousand tons of poultry meat and 131 million eggs. The production of poultry meat in Moldova exceeds 31 thousand tons, accounting for one third of the total output of the meat per year.