Import of poultry from India begins soon.

The government has decided to allow import of one day-old broiler and layer chicks and eggs from India to break the monopoly of some big companies in the country's poultry sector and to meet the increasing demands, said a competent source.

Md Sharful Alam, secretary of the ministry of fisheries and livestock, has said that the import of poultry products from India will begin within a week.

If the import begins, he said, the prices of eggs, broiler and layer chicks would fall significantly.

The Bangladesh government had earlier formed a permanent committee for co-ordinated efforts to keep the market situation normal, he said.

The efforts of the government would continue to find solution to the problems of the poultry sector, he added.

Source : thefinancialexpress-bd.com