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Local farms forced to throw away unsold eggs
By Jie Lan | Posted: 05 September 2012 2043 hrs
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Chickens at a poultry farm. (AFP Photo/Manan Vatsyayana)
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SINGAPORE: Singapore's egg farms are facing challenges in the market with rising costs and increasing competition.
And some said they have to discard hundreds of thousands of unsold eggs in the last one to two months.
Seventy per cent of Singapore's egg supply is imported from Malaysia.
But recently, an excess supply of Malaysian eggs means more are being exported to Singapore.
And local farms are finding it difficult to compete with the cheaper imports.
That's because Singaporean farms operate on a smaller scale of production and are more vulnerable to rising costs.
One of the larger local farms - N&N Agriculture - said the price of chicken feed has risen by some 60 per cent, due to the recent drought in America.
Unable to export the unsold eggs, some have been forced to discard large quantities of eggs.
CEO of N&N Agriculture, Ma Chin Chew, said: "If nothing is done to help these farms, we may not be able to survive. Local chicken farms cannot compete with those in Malaysia. The Malaysia farms can import more than one million tons of chicken feed each time. For local farms, we only use 50,000 tons each month."
Local farms forced to throw away unsold eggs
By Jie Lan | Posted: 05 September 2012 2043 hrs
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Chickens at a poultry farm. (AFP Photo/Manan Vatsyayana)
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SINGAPORE: Singapore's egg farms are facing challenges in the market with rising costs and increasing competition.
And some said they have to discard hundreds of thousands of unsold eggs in the last one to two months.
Seventy per cent of Singapore's egg supply is imported from Malaysia.
But recently, an excess supply of Malaysian eggs means more are being exported to Singapore.
And local farms are finding it difficult to compete with the cheaper imports.
That's because Singaporean farms operate on a smaller scale of production and are more vulnerable to rising costs.
One of the larger local farms - N&N Agriculture - said the price of chicken feed has risen by some 60 per cent, due to the recent drought in America.
Unable to export the unsold eggs, some have been forced to discard large quantities of eggs.
CEO of N&N Agriculture, Ma Chin Chew, said: "If nothing is done to help these farms, we may not be able to survive. Local chicken farms cannot compete with those in Malaysia. The Malaysia farms can import more than one million tons of chicken feed each time. For local farms, we only use 50,000 tons each month."