High costs, low earnings driving poultry farmers out of business

Many entrepreneurs say they stopped production after not getting a fair price for their products and feed prices soared continuously.

Poultry farmer Jeeten Thapa is a distraught man after rising costs and plunging earnings brought his business to near ruin. It was only a few months ago that he had established Jeeten Poultry Farm in Lalitpur by spending Rs5 million.