Staff Reporter :
The country’s poultry industry has sufferred a loss of Tk 256 crore during the 14 days due to the ongoing nonstop blockade and hartal, said the leaders of Bangladesh Poultry Industries Cordination Committee(BPICC).
The sector incurred a total loss of Tk 4,500 crore in the last 15 months also due to political crisis and other violent programmes, the BPICC leaders said this in a meet-the-press at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the city on Sunday.
In this backdrop, they urged the government and opposition parties to come to a solution over the ongoing political impasse in a bid to ensure peaceful business environment.
“We have been hit hard by the political turbulence as we have to kill around 22 lakhs day-old-chicks every day, failing to distribute those to dealers. If all political parties do not find out a better solution of the political crisis and peaceful democratic movements replacing hartal and blockade, they should give incentives to restrain stability in poutry business,” said BPICC convener Moshiur Rahman.
BPICC, a group of seven associations of the poultry sector, organized the press briefing on “Political Turmoil: Impact on Poultry Industry”. Fazle Rahim Khan Shahriar, president, Breeders’ Association of Bangladesh, Dr MM Khan, Secretary General, Bangladesh Poultry Industries Association, Kh Monsur Hossain, General Secretary, Feed Industries Association Bangladesh, Rafiqul Haque, Vice-president, Animal Health Companies Association and Amirul Islam, Sr Vice-president, Bangladesh Agro Feed Ingredients Importers & Traders Association were present.
“As things work in the poultry industry, the production of day-old chicks, eggs and broiler chicken takes place on a daily basis and they have to be shipped on the same day, as the farms lack storage and preservation facilities,” Mashiur Rahman said.
He said that they have no other option but to kill the day-old chicks and destroy the eggs if they cannot send them out on the day.
“The industry also suffered a loss of Tk 4,000 crore during the hartals and blockade in the year 2013. Unfortunately only after 14 months, the opposition political parties once again threw same type of programmes that is hampering normal life, he said.
The BPICC convener said during the current blockade that started in January 5 they had to incurred Tk a loss of Tk 256 crore during 14-day hartal-blockade. “If we count all the local hartals, blockades and violent movements, the total losses would be around Tk 4,5000 crore. If such programme continues not only the poultry industry but every industry will be collapsed and the national economy will be halted.”
Fazle Rahim Khan Shahriar, President, Breeders’ Association of Bangladesh (BAB) said, “We are losing our investment everyday. Egg & chicken supply being hampered for lack of transports. Approximately 25-30 per cent egg & chicken remaining unsold. He said, “If we can’t do business, how do we repay bank loan?”
In the previous years thousands of grassroots farmers had to sale their homes and lands. Expressing agony, Khan said, “how many times do we have to incurr losses for political instability?” He urged all parties including BNP and 20-party alliance to keep the egg, chicken, day-old-chicks, feed, vaccine and other raw materials ladened vehicles, out of hartals and blockades peogrammes.
BPIA Secretary General Dr MM Khan claimed that around Tk 8.5 crore egg could not be marketed due to unavailability of transportation. The losses was approximately Tk 47 crore. Around 7 thousand Metric Tonnes of chicken meat and 99 lakh day-old-chicks could not be marketed.
FIAB General Secretary Kh Monsur Hossain said, the demand for poultry feed in the last 14 days was around 91 thousand metric tonnes. The feed industry incurred losses worth Tk 73 crore.
AHCAB Vice-president Rafiqul Haque informed that the monthly poultry medicine market in Bangladesh is Tk.330 crore. The total loss was Tk 20 crore in this sector.
BAFIITA Sr Vice-president Amirul Islam said, the transport cost hiked up as raw materials could not be supplied on time. The production cost of Feed increasing.
The country’s poultry industry has sufferred a loss of Tk 256 crore during the 14 days due to the ongoing nonstop blockade and hartal, said the leaders of Bangladesh Poultry Industries Cordination Committee(BPICC).
The sector incurred a total loss of Tk 4,500 crore in the last 15 months also due to political crisis and other violent programmes, the BPICC leaders said this in a meet-the-press at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the city on Sunday.
In this backdrop, they urged the government and opposition parties to come to a solution over the ongoing political impasse in a bid to ensure peaceful business environment.
“We have been hit hard by the political turbulence as we have to kill around 22 lakhs day-old-chicks every day, failing to distribute those to dealers. If all political parties do not find out a better solution of the political crisis and peaceful democratic movements replacing hartal and blockade, they should give incentives to restrain stability in poutry business,” said BPICC convener Moshiur Rahman.
BPICC, a group of seven associations of the poultry sector, organized the press briefing on “Political Turmoil: Impact on Poultry Industry”. Fazle Rahim Khan Shahriar, president, Breeders’ Association of Bangladesh, Dr MM Khan, Secretary General, Bangladesh Poultry Industries Association, Kh Monsur Hossain, General Secretary, Feed Industries Association Bangladesh, Rafiqul Haque, Vice-president, Animal Health Companies Association and Amirul Islam, Sr Vice-president, Bangladesh Agro Feed Ingredients Importers & Traders Association were present.
“As things work in the poultry industry, the production of day-old chicks, eggs and broiler chicken takes place on a daily basis and they have to be shipped on the same day, as the farms lack storage and preservation facilities,” Mashiur Rahman said.
He said that they have no other option but to kill the day-old chicks and destroy the eggs if they cannot send them out on the day.
“The industry also suffered a loss of Tk 4,000 crore during the hartals and blockade in the year 2013. Unfortunately only after 14 months, the opposition political parties once again threw same type of programmes that is hampering normal life, he said.
The BPICC convener said during the current blockade that started in January 5 they had to incurred Tk a loss of Tk 256 crore during 14-day hartal-blockade. “If we count all the local hartals, blockades and violent movements, the total losses would be around Tk 4,5000 crore. If such programme continues not only the poultry industry but every industry will be collapsed and the national economy will be halted.”
Fazle Rahim Khan Shahriar, President, Breeders’ Association of Bangladesh (BAB) said, “We are losing our investment everyday. Egg & chicken supply being hampered for lack of transports. Approximately 25-30 per cent egg & chicken remaining unsold. He said, “If we can’t do business, how do we repay bank loan?”
In the previous years thousands of grassroots farmers had to sale their homes and lands. Expressing agony, Khan said, “how many times do we have to incurr losses for political instability?” He urged all parties including BNP and 20-party alliance to keep the egg, chicken, day-old-chicks, feed, vaccine and other raw materials ladened vehicles, out of hartals and blockades peogrammes.
BPIA Secretary General Dr MM Khan claimed that around Tk 8.5 crore egg could not be marketed due to unavailability of transportation. The losses was approximately Tk 47 crore. Around 7 thousand Metric Tonnes of chicken meat and 99 lakh day-old-chicks could not be marketed.
FIAB General Secretary Kh Monsur Hossain said, the demand for poultry feed in the last 14 days was around 91 thousand metric tonnes. The feed industry incurred losses worth Tk 73 crore.
AHCAB Vice-president Rafiqul Haque informed that the monthly poultry medicine market in Bangladesh is Tk.330 crore. The total loss was Tk 20 crore in this sector.
BAFIITA Sr Vice-president Amirul Islam said, the transport cost hiked up as raw materials could not be supplied on time. The production cost of Feed increasing.
