HYDERABAD: The poultry industry has been hit hard amid rumours that the COVID-19 can be transmitted by eating chicken and eggs.
This has forced several retail chicken shop owners to announce a ‘double dhamaka sale’, where chicken is being sold at as low as Rs 40 per kg and live chicken at Rs 15-18.
The industry is going through its worst crisis, in the last 20 days, the industry has seen a drastic sale dip of about 50 per cent. To ally chicken linked COVID-19 rumours,
City chicken retail owners claim that the situation is so bad now that they were forced to sell out their products at a very low rate.
Shaik Muzzafar, who runs a chicken centre said, “Looking at the condition of the market, we have decided to announce ‘double dhamaka sale’ for a few days and sell 2.5 kg of skinless chicken at Rs 100.”