Covid-19 disrupts Bangladesh’s poultry sector

The Bangladesh Poultry Industries Central Council (BPICC) expects the supply and demand mismatch for poultry to continue for the remainder of 2020. The BPICC saw a huge discrepancy in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic with a 12-year low in prices which has so far only partly recovered. The current situation is seriously undermining the livelihoods of Bangladesh’s millions of backyard poultry farmers and small traders. More than 6 million people in Bangladesh are either directly or indi