COMMENT | Make details public before floating chicken, egg prices

COMMENT | Cartels, power, and big money may sound sexy in action movies, but not in our eggs and poultry industry. Instead, they signal the control of production resources that take a whack at independent and contract farmers to artificially create shortages in order to increase prices.

While the prices of chicken and eggs are expected to be floated after June as part of the government’s efforts to overcome food shortage, this initiative must be transparent. 

Given that eight firms control...