New wholesale poultry market soon operational

Thursday, September 11. It is 9 a.m. Rue Jaâfar Al Barmaki, in Hay Mohammadi is crowded. It is not easy to make one's way through. And for good reason. Vehicles parking all along the street in front of the poultry slaughterhouse market are blocking the passage. Crates of poultry are piled up on the pavement. Traders are conducting their transactions outside the market. Professionals do not hesitate to unload their goods on the side of the road. Citizens are also doing their shopping outside the market. Activity within the site is rare. Despite this upheaval, one does not feel much of the strong foul odour that marks this street. "A large part of the market's activity is temporarily transferred outside while waiting for the rehabilitation of the site," explains one of the traders.Indeed, this market has been transformed, for more than a year, into an open-air construction site. The compe…