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Breeders defy uniform chick price

Complain poultry farmers

Star Business Report
Hatchery firms are yet to comply with the government decision on uniform prices for one-day old broiler and layer chicks.
The government fixed the price atTk 30 for one-day old broiler chicks and Tk 32 for layer chicks in a meeting with stakeholders. It was to be effective from June 16.
But poultry farmers claim that the leading breeding firms are yet to reduce prices.
The complaint was raised at the national convention of poultry farmers in Dhaka yesterday.
The current market prices for one-day old broiler and layer chicks are Tk 70 and Tk 75 respectively, the farmers
pointed out.
These farmers usually rear broiler chicks for meat and layer chicks for eggs.
“We want the government decision to be implemented soon so that we can buy one-day old chicks at the government fixed price," said Kamal Uddin, a poultry farmer and trader at Brahmanbaria, who attended the convention held at the National Press Club.
Kamal said the hatchery firms are exploiting them, as the production cost of a boiler or layer chick is around Tk 16, while they have to pay aroundTk 70.
The marginal poultry farmers also urged the government to reconsider the decision to import bird-flu affected eggs from India, take initiatives to export locally produced poultry prod-
ucts, reduce the price of bird feed and sell one-day old chicks at a maximum retail price rate.
They pointed out that the new budget had not made any budgetary allocation for the poultry sector. They lamented that the government measures to handle the bird-flu issue turned out to be ineffective.
There are around 1.15 lakh poultry farms that produce around 2.37 crore eggs and over 1,450 tonnes of meat a year, said industry insiders.
Value addition of this sector stands around 85 percent, as most raw materials needed are produced locally.
The poultry farmers announced different programmes to press their demand.