ACTING Tourism, Industry and Commerce(TIC) Minister, Irfaan Ali, has given the assurance that consumers will not have issues with high prices for chicken  during the Christmas season.

He said last week that there is unlikely to be a shortage or significant increase in prices during the season.
He said: “We have constant supply of poultry. There is no shortage on the market. Based on the projections, we are in a situation where demand and supply is[sic] meeting each other nicely.”
The TIC Ministry  through its Consumer Affairs Division monitors  the  prices for poultry on the local market.
During September last the ministry had granted 18 licences which are valid up to January 2014 for importation of chicken which had been in short supply on the local market.
The licences had been issued only for the quantity that both the poultry association and the ministry assessed to be the gap in the market at that time.
Minister Ally said that this strategy has been vindicated.