Muhyiddin To Villagers: Breed Chicken For Own Consumption

Agriculture and Agro-Based Industries Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said checks on the chicken industry showed the price of chicken feed had increased by about 40%.

Speaking to villagers and mosque committee leaders in Kampung Semasih near Panchor he said the nation's chicken production could be affected if there was a reduction by commercial breeders.

"If this happens, the price of chicken will increase and we urge villagers to adopt the old living style of breeding chickens around the houses.

"They can breed just enough for their own consumption and this way they will not be affected if there is any chicken shortage," he said before presenting Ramadan aid to mosque committee leaders in Pagoh on Thursday.

Sign up for our
regular news updates

Latest Poultry Industry News

•   BIRD FLU: Smuggled Frozen Chicken Carry AI Risk
•   CAP Health Check to Ease Plight of Farmers
•   Demand for Cobb 500 ‘Quite Outstanding’
•   Russian Federation: Livestock and Products 2008
•   Research Consortium to Sequence Turkey Genome
•   Immediate Reform of UN Body Urged
•   AECL Publishes Annual Report
•   Bosnia-Hercegovina: Poultry and Products 2008
•   Eggs Factor Winner Announced
•   Rainbow Plans on Branding