Local farmers rue import of mature broilers
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, December 24 2022:
Poultry farmers of Manipur have demanded to stop transportation and sale of grown broilers brought from outside the state from Saturday onwards as such practice drastically affects them.
Addressing poultry farmers from different areas who gathered at Sekmai on Friday, a poultry farmer identified as Ningthoujam Kennedy conceded that local poultry farmers are incurring huge financial losses and are hard-pressed to contemplate whether or not to continue rearing chicks due to some business houses selling imported chickens dictating the market price.
Intense forms of protest will be launched until the act of trying to ruin the local poultry farmers does not cease, he cautioned, while adding that the consequences for any untoward incident should be borne by those responsible for bringing in broilers from outside.