Vendors in high spirits as demand shoots up for fish
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The rising concern over consuming rooster and different poultry merchandise attributable to chicken flu scare, coupled with skyrocketing meat costs, have prompted public in the district to show to the fish markets, catapulting the fortunes of fish sellers.
After a lull of a few months because of the Karthika Masam and Dhanurmasam (November-mid January), when there was a decline in non-vegetarian consumption, the markets are seeing a gentle rise in consumers once more.
But with the chicken flu outbreak in the nation and plenty of States sounding an alert, the general public is apprehensive about shopping for poultry merchandise. The value of goat or sheep meat has additionally touched a high of ₹740 a kg, leaving no choice for them however to go for fish. And a lot to their satisfaction, the fish costs remained regular as had been earlier than the festive season. Several kinds of tank fish stood at ₹140 a kg.
The fish markets at Tirupati, Srikalahasti, Chittoor, Puttur, Nagari and elsewhere in the district noticed big crowds on Sunday.
Babu Reddy, a fish vendor in Puttur, stated that quite a lot of tanks in the jap mandals obtained good inflows after bountiful rain in the final six months. Rearing fish in all tanks is underneath brisk progress, he says. “We have almost all varieties of tank fish available now. The situation is expected to continue for several months. We find no need to increase the prices, though we can take advantage of the bird flu threat.”
‘Goat meat too pricey’
Uday, a police personnel in Tirupati, stated that the worth of mutton at ₹740 a kg is an excessive amount of for a standard man. “We find from a cross section of consumers that post the COVID-19 crisis, the purchasing power of several segments has come down. The bird flu scare has played the role of a catalyst to support fish markets. Moreover, dieticians too concentrated on protein-rich food.”
Meanwhile, the rooster costs continued to stay at ₹150 a kg, regardless of a drastic fall in variety of takers. “The plight of poultry for the current season would be clear in the next one week. Till then, the orders could be balanced to maintain the present tag,” stated a rooster store proprietor in Chittoor.
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