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Poultry farmers crossed the State converged astatine Palladam successful Tiruppur territory connected Thursday to sermon the modalities of the State-wide onslaught they person planned from January 1, 2026.
The poultry farmers person been urging broiler industries to revise rearing rate., and highlighting different demands.
The farmers are going up with stoppage of accumulation arsenic the authorities has not responded to their entreaty for fulfilment of their 10-point charter of demands. The farmers adopted a solution deciding to transportation retired a sit-in protestation successful beforehand of the bureau of Director of Animal Husbandry Department from January 7.
According to the farmers, the rearing rates person remained stagnant for the past 4 years and indispensable beryllium accrued to ₹15 a kg for boiler chicken, ₹20 a kg for workplace state chickenhearted and ₹5 a vertebrate for quail.
A Protest Committee constituted by the Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Padhukappu Sangam has demanded tripartite talks betwixt government, broiler chickenhearted industries and poultry farmers for revision of foster charges.
The speakers astatine the gathering analysed the gradual curtailment of the accumulation of broiler chickenhearted by farmers successful their ain lands owed to the precocious costs of electricity, feed, medication, labour, h2o and different attraction expenses.
The speakers said galore poultry farmers were connected the verge of bankruptcy owed to the backlog of unsettled loans and involvement payments.
Their demands included scrapping of FCR (Feed Conversion Ratio) method, proviso of escaped power, enactment of a payment committee for poultry farmers.
Seeking revision of rearing rates connected an yearly basis, the farmers besides wanted the broiler industries to conscionable the outgo of medicines, and the provender with capable macromolecule content.
