Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today has assured Chandgad-Maharashtra MLA Shivaji Patil that he will convene a meeting with the Goa Poultry Association and the Kolhapur Association to resolve the matter.
Shivaji Patil, MLA from Chandgad, Maharashtra, met with Goa Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant to discuss the issue of poultry supply from Kolhapur district to Goa.
The meeting was aimed to clear up a misunderstanding.
CM Dr. Sawant assured Patil that he will convene a meeting with the Goa Poultry Association and the Kolhapur Association to resolve the matter.
The supply was interrupted in several areas of the state because some cars carrying the livestock were not permitted to enter Goa from Chandgad, Maharashtra, according to Jaikrishna Naik, head of the All Goa Poultry Farmers and Traders’ Association (AGPFTA).
“After carrying out appropriate inspections, our group had recommended the State government to permit admission of trucks arriving from Maharashtra and Karnataka. We stated that it is necessary to verify the health of the birds being transported to the State.
Vehicles were being inspected before entering Goa in response to our request. Some merchants in the neighboring state were so incensed by this that they went on strike. We were able to obtain chicken from Karnataka vendors, but this led to a scarcity in some areas of the state,” he said.
“But we made enough provisions to ensure that supply is not affected,” Naik stated. We want the administration to make sure that cars from Maharashtra are inspected before they are allowed to enter the state.
Panaji chicken vendors acknowledged a chicken scarcity brought on by supply problems, but prices stayed the same.
On Sunday, the prices of Desi chicken, Layer chicken, and broiler chicken were Rs 300, 220, and 170 per kg, respectively. Bicholim vendors, however, claimed that because of the scarcity, prices varied from Rs 180 to Rs 200 per kg.
About 55 tonnes of chicken were supplied on Sunday, compared to the State’s daily use of about 70 tonnes.
The Qureshi Meat Traders’ Association of Goa (QMTAG) President, Manna Bepari, acknowledged on Sunday that there is a chicken shortage in some areas of Goa.