I wish to refer to the feature item Poultry Rates in the issue of June 28. According to it rate of eggs in the retail has risen to Rs 41/- per dozen. A week before, on June 21, the rate was Rs 32 per dozen. Refers page 12 of BR of that date. The rise is Rs 9/- in a matter of seven days.
It is 28 percent over the price on June 21. Poultry farms are seen as indulging in unethical business practices viz. profiteering. Their action in the latest instance must have attracted notice of monopoly Control Authority.
It is pertinent to mention that this industry already enjoys exemption from tax and is under much government patronage. Yet each year rains are taken advantage of to make windfall profits on the pretext of either floods or disruption of rail link.
This year the plea taken is blowing away of farm roofs by cyclone and consequent loss of birds. Though there seems no reason why this industry, which yields handsome profit to owners, should remain housed in flimsy structures which give way even under a strong gale of wind.
Is it not time, incidentally, that owners of poultry farms build stable structures to house their poultry farms in. There is no justification for this industry to transfer losses occurring from lack of imagination to consumers for their products. It is allowing pursuit of this policy, which is aggravating the situation as regards price of this item.
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