The Hindu Business Line : Poultry traders to go by NECC rates for cull birds

Coimbatore, April 10 The Namakkal-based poultry producers have agreed to go by the farm-gate price set by the National Egg Co-ordination Committee’s Namakkal zonal committee for the cull birds to avoid price undercutting in the market.

This has been decided at a joint meeting of the cull bird traders and layer bird growers held recently under the aegis of the Namakkal zonal committee of the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC).

According to a communication from the NECC, Namakkal, both the trade and the growers have been advised to stick to the cull bird rates fixed by the zonal committee.

The meeting was convened with a view to removing the prevailing difference between the farm-gate price of the cull birds periodically fixed by the NECC and the actual price at which the birds are procured by the trade from the growers. The widening gap in the prices has been a matter of concern among the poultry growers.

The meeting was attended by representatives of poultry farmers association, cull-bird traders association and poultry farmers federation, the NECC, Namakkal, the communication stated.

The NECC, which had fixed the cull bird rate at Rs 18 a kg last week after the joint meeting, has hiked the rate to Rs 20 a kg today.

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