Australian company to export feral camel meat to Middle East

Owner of frozen-meat importer Magdiens Australia, Magdy El Ashram says the application for the abattoir will be lodged with Port Pirie council this week and will generate 250 jobs and a $60 million-a-year industry.

"It's a win-win situation - I believe that everyone is going to benefit," he told AAP on Monday.

"I am going to benefit commercially, Port Pirie is going to benefit for jobs."

Mr El Ashram said the proposed site for the abattoir at Warnertown, on Highway One in the state's mid-north, was strategically chosen.

"If you have been monitoring the movements of the camels for the last five years, they are moving from the east out," he said.

"The site there is more closer to where the camels are coming to, (also) it's not far from the port (for export)."

Mr El Ashram said he plans to process 100,000 camels a year, as well as goats and donkeys, for export to the Middle East and North Africa.

"North Africa, the Middle East, we're talking about Egypt, Libya - they love camel meat."

The federal government is currently carrying out a culling program aimed at controlling a million feral camels roaming Central Australia, estimated to be increasing at a rate of 90,000 animals a year.