City to build large-scale chicken slaughterhouse

City to build large-scale chicken slaughterhouse

JAKARTA (JP): The city administration is to build its first
large-scale chicken slaughterhouse in a bid to fully control the
quality of the meat distributed to the market, a city official
said on Thursday.

Sri Mulyono, a senior official from the city livestock
husbandry agency, said the new slaughterhouse was urgently
needed. He said the agency had experienced difficulties in
controlling the distribution of the chicken meat due to the
scattered locations of the existing small chicken
slaughterhouses.

"To develop the slaughterhouse, the city administration will
receive loans worth US$100,000 (about Rp 700 million at the
current rate) from the World Bank.

"The memorandum of understanding itself has already been
signed, but we have not yet decided when the construction work
will begin," Sri said.

Total construction costs for the slaughterhouse, to be built
on a two-hectare plot in Penggilingan, East Jakarta, are
estimated at about Rp 1 billion.

"The administration will finance 20 percent of the total
cost," Sri said.

In addition to the main project, temporary shelters for
suppliers would also be constructed at the site to accommodate
suppliers who hail from areas outside Jakarta.

Currently, the city only has large-scale slaughterhouses for
sheep, buffaloes and pigs.

Sri said the planned chicken slaughterhouse would have a
production capacity of between 20,000 and 30,000 chickens per
day.

He acknowledged, however, that the city needed a
slaughterhouse with a larger output capacity in order to meet the
capital's daily demand for an average 300,000 chickens.

"Later, if we still have adequate funds and land space, we'll
build similar slaughterhouse in each of the four mayoralties.
Central Jakarta will not be included on the list due to the lack
of space in the area," Sri said.

Chicken meat distributed to the Jakarta markets is currently
supplied from some 1,000 small slaughterhouses scattered in and
around the capital.

"About 99 percent of the demand in the capital comes from
other provinces, particularly the neighboring West Java area," he
said.

Sri guaranteed that the supply of chicken meat for the
upcoming Christmas, New Year and Idul Fitri festivities in
Jakarta would be adequate.

"Weeks ago we had a meeting with poultry breeders who said
that they experienced no problems in meeting the city's demand,"
he said. (ind)