Higher prices, fewer chickens seven weeks after lifting of Malaysia export ban

Higher prices have kept some customers away while those who are still going are buying less than before. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Chicken sellers are seeing their earnings take a hit as higher prices and fewer birds eat into their profits, seven weeks after the ban on chicken imports from Malaysia was lifted.

Chicken sellers that The Straits Times spoke to at markets in Bukit Timah, Ghim Moh and Bedok said earnings have not returned to the level before the ban as the profit margin per bird is the same, but they do not have as many birds to sell as before.