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Poultry producers are frustrated by Guyana Stockfeeds

Jul 13, 2012 Letters

DEAR Editor,
It is through great frustration which has forced me to compile this letter hoping to use your readership to enlighten the public of the actions of an entity which enjoys a virtual monopoly in the local poultry sector.
I am a medium scale poultry producer and as if business was not difficult enough, I received a call from a representative of the Guyana Stockfeeds on the East Bank of Demerara to inform me that henceforth, prices for my supplies have increased by approximately four per cent.
No warning, no explanation just a demand that if I was to uplift my usual quota of supplies I will have to now fork out an additional $100,000 henceforth when I approached the bank teller to make my payment.
It is no secret as to who ultimately will be forced to pay for that increase and my greatest distress is when my wife has to explain to shoppers, particularly those on a small budget at the market why they have to pay.
No doubt our customers will now think that I am attempting to exploit them because who will believe our explanation that we were just told to pay an increase and we did. The result is that you the customer will have to make up for it now.
I am really thought a while whether to get into the area of politics as that has never been my cup of tea but when the owner of Stockfeeds, Robert Badal, got up on the political platform of the Alliance For Change a few months ago and said he cared about poor people of this country he obviously should have taken into consideration that he will be held to those words.
This is the very individual and his colleagues which was accusing the Government of high handed approach to the nation’s business, so what should we term the approach by Mr. Badal to poultry producers who have been loyal customers of his for many years and who have been forced to pay each and every increased demanded of us over the years.
Interestingly in previous increases we were subsequently told that certain raw materials essential for the production of the variety of feeds were scarce hence the increases. But it appears that in Mr. Badal’s world these raw materials are forever scarce and the cost of acquiring them never reduces which is contrary to what we are seeing and reading is the case on the world market.
Guyanese deserve better than this shabby treatment and while I was initially against the decision by Government to import Chicken, I now beginning to see the reason why.
I conclude by appealing to like-minded investors to seriously think about working towards overcoming the monopolistic tendencies of Guyana Stockfeeds and by extension Mr. Badal by providing competition in this sector which will ultimately benefit the small man out there.
I also make an open appeal to the Ministry of Agriculture to intervene in this situation and also to assist in alleviating these challenges.
Name and Address Withheld

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