By JKNewsMedia RISING EGGS prices have reached as much as N8,500 per crate as scarcity intensifies in parts of Nigeria, driven by limited access to day old chicks. JKNewsMedia.com reports Mojeed Iyiola, chairman of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Lagos, as attributing the increase and shortage to the unavailability of day-old chicks...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsReporter THE REMOVAL of fuel subsidies and rising feed costs are threatening Nigeria’s egg industry, with prices of crates potentially soaring to N10,000 from the current N5,500. Poultry farmers are grappling with high transportation costs and feed prices, which have doubled in some cases. Without immediate governm...
