The Broiler Integration Coordination Committee has criticised chicken retail shopkeepers for exploiting consumers and farmers in the poultry sector. According to the committee, the three-tier system of farmers, wholesale traders, and retailers unfairly burdens farmers and consumers, while retailers enjoy profits without risk.
Retail chicken shops across Telangana, including nearly 50,000 in Hyderabad, have announced an indefinite strike starting April 1. Shop owners allege that monopolistic practices by large poultry integrators have reduced their profit margins drastically.
Despite the ban on non-vegetarian and liquor sales on the occasion of the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, the owners kept the shops open and were caught selling the meat.
