Chairperson of the Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association, Gifty Rodor, has described the rampant increase in the cost of inputs as unprecedented and strangling the poultry industry in Ghana.
Speaking with GBC News, Madam Rodor said the new price increment has become necessary due to the increasing prices of inputs. She appealed to the government to come through for poultry farmers with some subsidies on their raw materials are yet to be met.
Madam Rodor said the farmers are ”left with no option, but to increase prices to continue to stay in business.”
A crate of small size eggs now sells at GHS 30 instead of GHS 23 whereas the price for a crate of ‘unsorted eggs’ has increased from GHS 25 to GHS 32 at the farm gate.
The poultry farmers want the government to have a relook at its flagship program, Planting for Food and Jobs, and also consider increasing its fertilizer subsidies policy to help farmers grow more maize to feed the industry.
