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Industry body urges ban on maize export
In Tamil Nadu in India, the National Egg Co-ordination
Committee (NECC) has called for a ban on forward trading and exporting of maize,
in the hope that poultry farmers will be protected from unprecedented price
increases.
A release from
NECC
Chairperson Anuradha Desai said the poultry industry was in the grip of severe
crisis because of the price of maize, an important poultry feed.
The NECC appealed to the Prime Minister, Union Agriculture Minister and
Union Finance Minister to ensure the availability of adequate quantity of maize
at an affordable cost.
The committee asked the Prime Minister to remove maize from the list of
commodities allowed for forward trading and ban export of maize.
The committee claims that prices have increased by 90 to 100 percent,
alleging that multinational companies, through forward trading, had managed to
corner huge quantities of maize and were withholding the grain from the
market
The committee also asked the government to extend the interest subvention
and moratorium on repayment of bank loans availed by the poultry farmers
(granted as part of the relief package in the wake of
bird
flu) by one more year.
Editor WorldPoultry
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