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28 January 2026 Visits: 286 Reports| Yahya Al-Rubaie… At a landmark historical moment in the path of national liberation, and based on the Qur’anic vision established by Commander Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi in the necessity of the nation possessing its power as a basic condition for possessing its decision, the battle for self-sufficiency in the poultry sector is launched today as a strategic front no less fierce than the fronts of military confrontation, as the revolutionary leadership realizes that dependence on the import is a restriction that the Zionist-American aggression wanted to shackle Yemen to in order to remain a hostage. For policies of starvation and extortion. From this standpoint, the decisions of the Government of Change and Construction came to translate this vision into a field reality that cuts off import hegemony, considering that every egg produced and every local chicken is a bullet in the chest of the siege, and a practical step towards wresting food sovereignty from the clutches of colonial powers that sought for decades to destroy the productive structure of Yemen and turn it into a consumer market for their suspicious products. Based on this revolutionary approach, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources, represented by a unit Poultry, and the value chains programme, to translate the matrix of change and construction into a comprehensive production movement that began from the vibrant heart of Tihama, where dealing with the poultry sector became a national project with a tinge of resistance aimed at disengaging from the system of monopoly policies practiced by major global economic companies. In the context of this transformation, the import of frozen chicken was stopped as a courageous sovereign decision, paving the way for the hands of Yemeni breeders to rebuild the productive identity, which led to a radical transformation in The balance of power within the local market, where the efforts of cooperative societies combined with the national private sector to build production castles and local freezing lines, thus declaring the end of the era of “transcontinental chicken” and the beginning of the era of pure Yemeni food sovereignty. Value chains are a tool for liberation. In this narrative context that reveals the depth of the transformations, Engineer Hilal Muhammad Al-Jashari, head of the poultry unit and value chains officer at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources, revealed in a statement to “Ansar website” the features of a production saga that led to the complete replacement of imported local frozen chicken, declaring a technical and economic victory in a sector that represents the backbone of national food security, as this leap was not the result of coincidence, but rather came as a result of an organized production strategy aimed at breaking the The monopoly of international companies represented by flooding the markets with imported products aims to strike the local production structure and keep the country hostage to global stock market indices and hard currencies. Accurate analytical data indicate that the poultry sector contributes about 19% of the domestic product and 40% of the value of animal production, which makes it the first line of defense in the face of artificial food crises, especially since Engineer Al-Jashari confirmed that chicken and its eggs – in addition to what we mentioned – are an important source of protein, and this sector is also considered an important source of protein. A huge investment engine that accommodates billions of riyals and provides livelihoods for hundreds of thousands of Yemeni families. Since the launch of the regulatory process in 2025 under the auspices of the martyr Minister Dr. Radwan Al-Rubai, Yemen has begun the phase of purging this sector of “artificial randomness” that was managed by local intermediaries linked to cross-border import agendas, raising costs for the producer and consumer, and placing the national economy in a vicious circle of depletion of hard currencies. With the activation of “value chains” as a strict administrative and supervisory tool, the ministry was able to reduce the intermediary rings and link the farm directly to the consumer. Through the umbrella of cooperative societies, which led to the restoration of the activity of 1,200 production facilities that had been taken out of service due to policies of deliberate dumping of imported chickens and eggs. The matter did not stop at the borders of breeding, but rather extended to include a “logistical revolution” that included the restarting of 5 major slaughterhouses and the establishment of 4 new automated slaughterhouses, in parallel with the expansion of the refrigeration infrastructure to reach its capacity to more than 20 million chickens. The price of the chick was also fixed at no more than 350 riyals with transportation to poultry breeders, and generalizing against selling and marketing without official invoices specifying the price, source, and destination, which created a strategic safety valve that prevents price fluctuations and blocks the way for those who manipulate people’s livelihood in sensitive seasons such as the holy month of Ramadan, to achieve a stable market of poultry and eggs while achieving a safe production surplus to enhance food security. In return, the Ministry will take strict measures against those who manipulate prices or quality, and against monopolistic practices, and this comes within the ongoing efforts to protect the consumer. Ensuring the balance and sustainability of the local market. Together to support the national product, and in the depth of the descriptive analysis of this experience, the “fodder battle” stands out as the most dangerous episode of confrontation, as imported fodder represents between 70% and 80% of the cost of production, which has made the sector vulnerable to external financial blackmail. Here, Al-Jashari explains that the ministry has adopted the vision of “localizing the fodder industry” as a battle for independence that cannot be divided into two, as progress was made in replacing local alternatives such as maize, millet, and soybeans grown on lands Tihama, Al-Jawf and the eastern regions, and activating “contract farming” that linked grain farmers to feed factories, which contributed to supporting the local product and reducing the feed import bill. More than 200 tons of maize have been contracted since the beginning of this year, and we are continuing. In addition, the success of soybean cultivation will constitute a major shift in enhancing self-sufficiency, starting with self-sufficiency in seeds this year and expanding its cultivation. Also – and most importantly – the success of research experiments in poultry nutrition through the introduction of the millet crop, whose cultivation is widespread in Yemen, and this will contribute to replacing local poultry feed by up to 75%, especially with imported Levantine corn. All of this and others will lead to a significant reduction in the production cost due to the expansion of agriculture and production, and a reduction in the import bill that drains the country of more than $800 million annually. This shift towards “national fodder” represents a major economic transformation aimed at disengaging from global monopolistic companies, especially those that control the grain exchanges, as the plan included the use of milling waste and local fishmeal as a source of protein, along with the expansion of the cultivation of maize locally, and the localization of vaccine production. Veterinary medicine, while Yemeni minds emerge with qualitative innovations such as solar heating systems to confront climate fluctuations and the high costs of petroleum derivatives, which gives the local product competitiveness and health quality superior to its imported counterpart, which is saturated with hormones and antibiotics. In addition, it makes the “egg, manure, and chicken” parts of a closed economic cycle that enhances monetary sovereignty. The mobile bank and the guardian of diversity. On a parallel path characterized by authenticity, the Ministry launched a national project to save “local chickens” from the specter of extinction that haunted them due to imported viral diseases and the lack of vaccination. Experts from research institutions, the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Ministry’s livestock sector are working on improving the local breeds in order to produce a pure local chicken breed. There are specific experiments and feeding that have led to reducing the period of raising them from six months to three months while preserving their high nutritional value, and they are distributed through cooperative societies within programs Economic empowerment, with a guarantee of marketing and providing breeders with small hatcheries, and continuing research and multiplication in an effort to reach self-sufficiency that will return “local chickens and eggs” to every Yemeni home as an economic and health resource, so that the last bet – as Al-Jashari sees it – remains placed on the awareness of the Yemeni consumer in supporting his country’s product, and on the courage of the private sector to invest in local alternatives, to extract food sovereignty from abroad and transfer it to the hands of the Yemeni farmer in the production trenches. And no less. “Local chickens” are more important than their commercial counterparts. Rather, the engineer Al-Jashari sees them as “a food store and a mobile bank” for the Yemeni countryside. In the face of the invasion of hybrid breeds that require sterile and expensive environments, local chickens have emerged as a natural resistance to diseases, rich in minerals and vitamins, and linked to the productive identity of the Yemeni family. The Ministry has sought – through economic empowerment programs – to distribute more than 3,500 improved chickens from local breeds, and to train farmers. On semi-intensive education, which gave rural women financial independence and the ability to contribute to food security away from the fluctuations of the global market, which embodies the concept of “resistance through production” in its simplest and strongest form. The revolution of selling by weight. The production path would not have been completed without a revolution in commercial legislation, as a joint committee from agriculture, economics and industry was assigned to study the mechanism of “selling by weight” instead of “head”, which was preceded by a shift in the prevailing consumer culture, and the activation of selling by weight over the past year within contract farming and the marketing of frozen chicken, a local product, and replacing it with the imported one. Despite the attempts of skepticism and resistance from some trade lobbies that are accustomed to achieving double profits through “injustice in size,” the contract farming mechanism through cooperative societies, poultry companies and slaughterhouses was carried out over the past year to the extent of marketing 3,500 tons of locally produced frozen chicken for an amount of more than 7 billion riyals, in addition to activating supply chains, organizing the marketing of poultry locally through cooperative societies, and marketing fresh and chilled chicken, all of which was sold by weight as an ethical and economic standard that guarantees the right to… The farmer, in every gram of his effort, protects the consumer from fraud. This transition to the “language of scales” – in addition to what was mentioned – will allow the state to build an accurate database about the actual volume of production in tons, which will facilitate strategic planning operations and prevent the collapse of prices in peak seasons, supported by a strict monitoring mechanism that starts from slaughterhouses and forests all the way to the scales of electronic retail stores. From product to table. Looking to the future, the 2026 plan aims to market and freeze between 30 to 40 million chickens locally, with a relentless effort to reach 100% of the needs of major cities and restaurants. This ambition is supported by realistic numbers, as more than 5 million frozen chickens have already been marketed with a value exceeding 7 billion riyals since the beginning of 2025, which has completely dried up sources of imports. This achievement constitutes a qualitative leap against the policies that were considered… Yemen is merely a consumer market for expired or adulterated products of questionable origin and affiliated entities. The partnership between the governmental, cooperative and private sectors – under the supervision of the Supreme Agricultural and Fisheries Committee, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources, represented by the Marketing and Agricultural Trade Sector, the Livestock Sector, the Agricultural Cooperative Union and the Agricultural Cooperative Societies – has proven that Yemen is capable of wresting its sovereignty from the mouth of challenges. The private sector, which was previously wary, has now become a partner in building… Slaughterhouses, factories and laboratories, realizing that “investing in the Yemeni land and people” is the only winning bet in light of the major geopolitical transformations, and with the continued development and expansion of local investment in the poultry sector and its proper management and the transformation of importers into local producers, with all this Yemen is approaching the moment of absolute self-sufficiency, where the “Yemeni chicken” becomes a symbol of national dignity, and an impenetrable barrier against attempts at starvation and subjugation practiced by enemies. Nation. In conclusion, the poultry sector in Yemen remains a witness to the greatness of the will when combined with the scientific vision and the jihadist spirit. What the Ministry of Agriculture has achieved is to restore national decision-making from the warehouses of foreign companies, and to transform the Yemeni countryside and cities into production cells that refuse to rely on imported “certainty,” and create their dawn with the hands of their children, stressing that sovereignty begins from the “morsel,” and that value chains are in fact chains of freedom, dignity, and Yemeni pride that cannot be It breaks.
