Will be available in next 2 days: FCS&C
Zaffer Iqbal
Uri, April 12: With just a day left for Ramadan, residents of border town Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla Monday complained about unavailability of broiler chicken in the market.
Locals in Uri said broiler chicken is not available to them for the last two weeks. “It has completely disappeared from the market,” said Rashid Ahmad, a local.
A shopkeeper in Uri who runs a chicken shop laments the high rates for not purchasing the chicken from the poultry farms.
“As per the government instruction, chicken should be sold at Rs 125 per kg but recently Uri admin allowed shopkeepers to sell it at Rs 135 per kg after a meeting between Uri admin and chicken dealers,” he said.
However, he said that the poultry farm owners are selling it at Rs 150. “Why would one purchase at such a high price,” he said.
He said the administration was not taking any action against poultry farm owners.
“For the last two weeks not a single vehicle loaded which broiler chicken has come to Uri from Baramulla which has created the issues over the rates,” he complained.
Reports reaching here said that some shopkeepers in nexus with poultry farm owners are selling the broiler chicken at Rs 180 per kg in Uri market and the administration is acting as mute spectator.
Assistant Director Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Department Baramulla Tariq Ahmad saidthat they have already received several complaints about the overcharging by poultry owners. “We have warned them and are now going to take strict action against these poultry farm owners,” he said.
He said in the next two days broiler chicken supply will be available in markets as per government rates.
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