Abeokuta — No fewer than 350,000 poultry farmers have been forced out of business in Ogun State from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the State Chairman of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Mrs Isioma Blessing Alawode, has disclosed.
Addressing newsmen yesterday in Abeokuta on the plight of the poultry farmers, Alawode raised an alarm over the imminent collapse of the poultry industry following what she called "an arbitrary increase in the price of maize and other essential poultry feeds."
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