Using tapioca, crickets as chicken feed can reduce chicken price

LETTERS: The latest chicken price increase has caused another stir.

The reason for the hike, as told by the authorities, is the increase in the price of chicken feed, which constitutes about 70 per cent of production costs.

Several measures have been implemented by the government in response to the issue such as setting a ceiling price through subsidies and increasing the volume of imported whole chicken.

The Agriculture and Food Industries Ministry is mulling the domestic production of grain corn as one of the long-term intervention measures, owing to the fact that almost 55 per cent of poultry feed is made up of corn.