Price of fish, chicken sky high
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 18 2013:
With the prices touching the sky, people of the State who are fond of fishes are finding it hard to buy fishes from the market.
Adding to this agony is the steep rise in the price of chickens which are being sold at Rs 250 per kg.
Apart from the normally low production of fishes in the State, the sale from fish farms too has declined drastically as this time of the year happens to be the season for rearing fingerlings.
As a result, the prices of fishes such as Rohu and Common Carp are being sold anywhere between Rs 180 to 250 for one kg.
In addition to this, the rate of smoked fish too has increased and people are finding it difficult even to get a small quantity of smoked fish for Rs 100 or below.
Even a quarter of one Kg of dry fish is being sold above Rs 110 .
Meanwhile, the price of chicken meat preferred widely by the youths of the State has also increased manifold.
One kg of chicken (Broiler) is being sold at Rs 250.Kuroiler and other local chickens are sold at Rs 350 per kg.
Even the meat of ducks has reached over Rs 300 per kg.
However, the rate of pork in the market has come down from its earlier rate and is sold anywhere between Rs 130-150 per kg.
Earlier one kg of Pork had reached Rs 200 .
Commenting on the steep rise of price of chickens in the State, a butcher informed Hueiyen Lanpao that the number of farmers taking up poultry farming as profession has declined in the State lately.
The reasons for fall in the number of people taking up poultry farming varied.
Among the various reasons, mention may be made of the rise in prices of chicks which are sold at Rs 60 per head; chicken feeds at Rs 30 per kg, fear factor that mortality rate of chickens is high in summer and lastly, this time of the year is for cleaning up the farm at least once in a year.
Another reason is the transportation of chickens from other States in huge quantities at a very low rate, thus, posing a great challenge in marketing the locally reared chickens.