Rising prices for corn over the past six months, combined with lower proceeds from the sale of eggs, forcing the Indian poultry producers require increased imports of feed for poultry.

In Andhra Pradesh, the representatives of the sector of the poultry industry has appealed to the authorities to increase imports of corn, despite the already imported in the region of 500 000 tonnes of grain from Russia earlier this year, according to Indian newspaper The Hindu.

A delegation of poultry farmers called on the Minister of Commerce Nirmala Sitaraman to increase corn imports by 500 000 metric tons. The President of the poultry Association of India and Director of State veterinary Council Falling Subba Reddy called for a long-term solution to this problem, to ensure the viability of the poultry sector in the future.