Birds at affordable prices on rakyat’s wish list

Costly enterprise: A worker tending to the chickens at a farm in Kuala Nerang.

GEORGE TOWN: Middle-income families are keeping their fingers crossed that the prices of chicken will not go up too much from next month when the government subsidy to chicken breeders is withdrawn.

The government announced that the subsidy for breeders will be removed from July 1 and the aid to be channelled directly to those in need, especially the B40 group.