date:Apr 25, 2013
y signs of recovery for poultry consumption, said Wang Xiaoyue, an analyst at Beijing Orient Agri-business Consultant Co. There is a possibility of 20 to 30 percent decline in consumption this year if the flu lasts for some time.
The price of one-day-old chicks, which poultry farmers buy from breeders to restock, have plunged more than 85 percent, according to the National Poultry Industry Association.
Breeders have scaled back and, in the northeast city of Shenyang, millions of baby chicks we