If cases of bird flu start being reported from the city, then the business will take a hit,” said Salim Quraishi, who has a poultry shop in Sukhdev Vihar area.Ĭonsumers said that there was no drop in retail prices of poultry but they were exercising caution. Though the prices have not yet dropped, but the number of customers has dipped slightly as compared to the last 2-3 days. “The customers are probing if the poultry they are buying is healthy and fresh and if it might have been infected by the flu. However, traders in the city’s retail markets said that the prices of poultry is the same, but customers are asking question before buying the bird.
Samples are being collected by the government to check and control spread of the flu,” he said. “Fewer customers came to buy poultry today as compared to the last two days. Till Wednesday, the wholesale prices were about ₹100 per bird per kilo which has now dropped to ₹80 to ₹60 per bird per kilo depending upon quality,” said Tehseen Quraishi, a wholesale trader in Ghazipur Fish and Poultry market.Īdil Ahmed, another trader at the wholesale market, said that they are taking all precautions and teams of Delhi government are also collecting samples from the market. So, the wholesale rates of poultry has dropped in the market.
“Even though there has been no cases of bird flu in Delhi, residents are exercising caution in buying poultry. The Delhi government had on Thursday launched a sample collection drive to check for bird flu. However, the drop in poultry prices is yet to reflect in retail markets, even as traders across the city said the number of customers have dipped slightly on Friday in retail as well as wholesale markets.Ĭases of bird flu so far have been confirmed in at least six states - Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Kerala. Following the confirmed reports of avian influenza (H5N1) or Bird Flu-related deaths of migratory and other birds in the neighboring state of Himachal Pradesh, the Punjab government has issued an alert for any suspicious death of migratory or poultry birds. Amritsar: A worker feeds chickens at a poultry farm at Chabba village, near Amritsar, Jan. The wholesale prices of poultry has dropped by around ₹40 per kilo in two days amid fears of an outbreak of bird flu in Delhi-NCR, according to traders in the city’s wholesale poultry markets.
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