Myanmar's poultry business suffers broken rice price hike

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Myanmar's poultry business suffers broken rice price hike

STORY: Myanmar's poultry business suffers broken rice price hike DATELINE: March 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:04:09 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the duck farm in Taikkyi township of Yangon region 2. various of ducks in the fields STORYLINE: Burmese layer ducks farm owners face loss due to the rocketing feed price. The fishery sector is also facing the burden of high feed costs. Entrepreneurs have requested government efforts on the price stability of raw materials. Layer ducks farm owner Ko Naing from Yangon Region put his ducks up for sale at 5,000 kyats (about 2.38 U.S. dollars) per head for an outright sale. "The feed cost is exorbitantly high. The price of broken rice as animal feed went up 33 percent. Besides, the production rate has declined," he said. "The quality of the feed is changed to an inferior state. Although the layer ducks fed well, the egg production plunged compared to the previous record," added another duck farmer Ko Kyaw Swar. Meanwhile, the price of d

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