Report: Chicken cartels shutting down farms to protest delay in delivery of subsidy
“The government does not care even though many suppliers and consumers complain that they cannot get enough supply of chicken,” the source said.
(MMO) – A group of poultry industry cartels has planned to close poultry farms on Saturday and Sunday to protest against the government’s delay in subsidy payment.
Malay daily Utusan Malaysia, quoting sources, said that a circular was issued yesterday by a livestock farm company in Melaka to suppliers informing them that the supply of chicken will be stopped on May 21 and 22 on the grounds of ‘problems in the livestock farm’.
“I believe their intention is to boycott the government, consumers and others.
“The reason they are doing that is because of the increasing cost of bran and chicks as well as the delay in getting subsidies from the authorities.
“The government does not care even though many suppliers and consumers complain that they cannot get enough supply of chicken,” the source said.
Utusan last week shed light on the cartel that controls the market price of chicken in the country, giving rise to the volatility in prices in recent times.
It said almost the entire chain of the livestock industry is controlled by several large cartels that use associations as a method of disguising their actions.
The sources added that the closure of the poultry farms will result in the market no longer being able to meet consumer demand, with the chain likely to be completely severed when this happens.
