Permit import of one-day chick to protect consumers
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Believe it or not, in the retail market of Dhaka, one egg is selling for Tk.10. It is unprecedented in the country. Only less than a dozen one-day chick breeders are mainly responsible for such sky-high price. The poultry farm owners, poultry feed producers and the government decision makers are partially responsible for this. The prices of poultry birds have become double. As the eggs and the poultry birds were relatively less costly, general people used to go for these options for meeting their protein need which are out of their reach now. It is unbelievable that an elected government has been showing apathy to people's sufferings by not taking any steps. The one-day chick producers are spreading propaganda that free import of one-day chicks and eggs would spread bird flue and destroy the poultry farms in the country. It is indeed their strategy to monopolize one-day chick business and sell a one-day chick at even Tk. 60, which should not be more than Tk. 20. To save the consumers, the government should resume import of one-day chicks and eggs.
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