Breeders struggling with higher production costs

Market supply: An employee arranging frozen chicken at Mydin Hypermarket in Bukit Jambul. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: One man’s meat is another’s financial poison – even as consumers rejoice that chicken prices have dropped because of excess in supply, poultry farmers are struggling to cope with high production costs.

They have to spend about RM7 for every kilogramme of chicken and the retail price of chicken has dropped to RM3.50 per kg.