INDIA CHICKEN
February 1st, 2003 BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN chicken producers, already been hit by a poultry price fall, are now facing another problem: a rise in the price in their principal feed, maize. There is a particular problem in the south, where the Tamil Nadu's maize crop could be 50 per cent of earlier projections because of the failure of the country's northeast monsoon.
INDIAN chicken producers, already been hit by a poultry price fall, are now facing another problem: a rise in the price in their principal feed, maize. There is a particular problem in the south, where the Tamil Nadu's maize crop could be 50 per cent of earlier projections because of the failure of the country's northeast monsoon.
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