Kanchanpur, April 19 : The poultry farmers here have been worrying over the decline in business with the enforcement of lockdown in the wake of escalating risks of COVID-19.
There is no market for the sale of eggs produced in the farms. The product will decay if it is stored in the farm for long. For not having proper air-cooled storage, eggs rot soon, said Dhirendra Saud, adding that the chicken of layers species are raised for eggs. It is difficult to manage the feed to the chicken too.
He further said, “Some 2,000 hens had begun laying eggs in his farm. But there is no market at all to sell the eggs.” Saud had invested Rs 1.5 million for the poultry farming. If the lockdown continues, there is no option but to destroy the eggs worth over than half million rupees. Another poultry farmer Jay Bahadur Air said, “In order to run a poultry farm, Rs 12,000 is spent in a day- to manage feed, medicine, electricity and pay to workers.” He is also worried that the investment would go to waste in this crisis.
He shared the plight that the farmers running business by taking loans were now much worried. “How do they manage the source to pay bank loan,” he expressed problem. Another Rewan Chaudhary demands the government needs to create environment for the sale of eggs. He said there is no feed for the chicken on the one hand and no market to sell egg on the other. He has raised 1,000 layers. Chaudhary informed that he has urged the local levels and administration to help manage feed and market for egg sale.
Meanwhile, officer at livestock development in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Narayan Datt Bhatta, said the study on the problems faced by the poultry farmers was begun with the coordination of local levels. The local levels, as he said, would provide the record on the entrepreneurs and the losses they incurred. RSS
