Poultry farmers in Karnataka demand increase in minimum price
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Poultry farmers want an increase from around ₹4 to ₹12 a kg.
After more than a week of disruption in chicken trade over a dispute over increasing minimum price for poultry farmers, supply in the State is stabilising even as chicken price is expected to go up marginally in the coming days.
The poultry farmers, who have a contract with poultry companies as “integrated poultry farmers” had refused to lift new hatchings and had disallowed the companies to lift birds for supply to the market, are demanding an increase in minimum price from around ₹4 to ₹12 a kg. However, after a mediation by the Animal Husbandry Department officials where an interim rise of ₹7.5 per kg was accepted, the supply is being normalised.
Curbs result in drop in chicken prices
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Consumption patterns, however, remain largely unaffected: Breeders
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Outbreak of bird flu in many States and subsequent decisions to ban the import of chicken has resulted in a glut of poultry in the local market
Consumption patterns, however, remain largely unaffected: Breeders
The outbreak of bird flu in many States and subsequent decisions to ban the import of chicken has resulted in a glut of poultry in the local market here. According to the Karnataka Poultry Farmers and Breeders’ Association, every week 15 lakh birds were being supplied to neighbouring States. With restrictions now in place, this has almost come to a standstill.