Poultry trade in Joypurhat sees better days
Friday, 8 October 2010
Our Correspondent
JOYPURHAT, Oct 7: The poultry growers in Joypurhat are currently making handsome profit, as the prices of fowls and eggs in local and wholesale markets have increased during last one and a half months, farm owners said.
"Now both the small and large growers are having high income with the sudden hike in prices of poultry birds soon after the anthrax scare in different parts of the country," Joupurhat Poultry Growers' Association President Kabil Akondo said.
A farm owner is making a profit of Tk 30 to 40 thousand by rearing a thousand hens for 55 days, Akondo added.
There are about ten thousand poultry farms in the district. The farms grow some three million chickens of tender and old ages. Eight hatcheries including the government one supply one-day-old fowls to the farms. The growers, however, said inadequate supply of big-size one-day-old fowls was a hindrance to their booming business.
According to district livestock office, the registered and unregistered farms produce about 10,000 tonnes of fowl meat against the demand of 1,900 tonnes in the district. The surplus meat is supplied to other areas. Some 1.1 million people of the district are now directly or indirectly engaged in the poultry business.
One kilogram of chicken is at present sold at Tk 170 to Tk 180 which cost earlier Tk 120 to Tk 130. A hatching egg is sold at Tk 12 to Tk 13 while an egg of layer hens at Tk 5.5 to 6 Tk and a one-day-old chicken at Tk 15 to Tk 17 taka.
When contacted, acting assistant director of Jamalganj Government Hen-Duck Farm Saiful Islam said, "We will continue supplying better inputs to the farm owners from our farm to help them make the poultry business more productive in the days to come."
However, many of the farm owners said the poultry industry would be more profitable if they were provided with short-term bank loans on easy conditions and subsidy.
JOYPURHAT, Oct 7: The poultry growers in Joypurhat are currently making handsome profit, as the prices of fowls and eggs in local and wholesale markets have increased during last one and a half months, farm owners said.
"Now both the small and large growers are having high income with the sudden hike in prices of poultry birds soon after the anthrax scare in different parts of the country," Joupurhat Poultry Growers' Association President Kabil Akondo said.
A farm owner is making a profit of Tk 30 to 40 thousand by rearing a thousand hens for 55 days, Akondo added.
There are about ten thousand poultry farms in the district. The farms grow some three million chickens of tender and old ages. Eight hatcheries including the government one supply one-day-old fowls to the farms. The growers, however, said inadequate supply of big-size one-day-old fowls was a hindrance to their booming business.
According to district livestock office, the registered and unregistered farms produce about 10,000 tonnes of fowl meat against the demand of 1,900 tonnes in the district. The surplus meat is supplied to other areas. Some 1.1 million people of the district are now directly or indirectly engaged in the poultry business.
One kilogram of chicken is at present sold at Tk 170 to Tk 180 which cost earlier Tk 120 to Tk 130. A hatching egg is sold at Tk 12 to Tk 13 while an egg of layer hens at Tk 5.5 to 6 Tk and a one-day-old chicken at Tk 15 to Tk 17 taka.
When contacted, acting assistant director of Jamalganj Government Hen-Duck Farm Saiful Islam said, "We will continue supplying better inputs to the farm owners from our farm to help them make the poultry business more productive in the days to come."
However, many of the farm owners said the poultry industry would be more profitable if they were provided with short-term bank loans on easy conditions and subsidy.