Jokowi’s Swaying Promise
The increasing price of feed further makes things difficult for laying hen farmers, who have been suffering losses from the plummeting price of eggs. There are irregularities in the government’s data.
Retno Sulistyowati
October 25, 2021
ONE by one, Suroto marked his hens that laid less than four eggs, or none at all. Those hens would be sold. “Sold at a cheap price to traders as unproductive layer chickens,” he said on Friday, October 22.
Suroto is a layer chicken farmer from Suruhwadang village in Blitar Regency, East Java. He planned to reduce his chicken population, which was around 4,000 that day. The goal is to cut loss. The declining price of eggs over t
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