Poultry to be key player in new farming era

Friday 13 November 2009

THE poultry sector could become a bigger player as the global farming sector enters a new era where demand threatens to outstrip supply, according to a key economist.

Cranfield University economist Sean Rickard said that the big rise in feed prices in 2007 and subsequent food inflation had led to a change of thinking. "It brought it home to ministers that the world food supply is not as secure as they thought.

"It has rumbled those advising the government with the wrong view that going back to the old ways of farming was the way forward," he said at the Egg and Poultry Industry Conference.

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