{"id":144739,"date":"2024-10-07T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144739"},"modified":"2024-10-07T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T23:04:27","slug":"poultry-farmers-calls-for-stabilization-of-poultry-feed-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/07\/poultry-farmers-calls-for-stabilization-of-poultry-feed-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Poultry Farmers\u2019 calls for stabilization of poultry feed prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, October 7 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; After a decrease in tourist arrivals and an excess supply of eggs resulted in a reduction in market prices, the All Island Poultry Farmers&#8217; Association has called for a stabilization of poultry feed prices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the excess supply of eggs, the market price has reduced to below the cost of production. Therefore we have asked for a stabilization of prices of poultry feed, or we may risk poultry owners no longer supplying eggs,\u201d President of the Association Ajith Gunasekera said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reduction in tourists arrivals and the reduced demand from consumers had resulted in the prices of eggs falling, leading to excess supply in the market, Gunasekera said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poultry Farmers\u2019 Association calls For stabilization of poultry feed prices\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FLJ32nEeFRY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, October 7 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; After a decrease in tourist arrivals and an excess supply of eggs resulted in a reduction in market prices, the All Island Poultry Farmers&#8217; Association has called for a stabilization of poultry feed prices.&nbsp; Due to the excess supply of eggs, the market price has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}