Poultry farmers in Ghana imported more than five million day old chicks last year to meet the shortfall in local production. They produced a total of 804,000 day old chicks to be reared as broilers and 2,412,000 day old chicks to be reared as layers. Statistics from the Veterinary Services Department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture show that 1,088,865 day old chicks were imported for rearing as broilers. The number of day old chicks imported last year for rearing as layers was 4,481,602. Our poultry farmers don’t also have access to credits and the liberalization of import trade is killing the local poultry industry, he explained”.