SINGAPORE, June 22 — Businesses along the supply chain for fresh poultry such as butchers and suppliers that are hurt by Malaysia's partial live chicken export ban are seeking government support, following the waiver of the foreign worker levy for chicken slaughterhouses.
Poultry abattoirs welcomed this support, saying that it is “better than nothing”, but other businesses along the supply chain said that if the export ban drags on, they hope that the government will consider giving them support as well.that smaller businesses such as his have been left to fend for themselves, whereas the relatively larger slaughterhouses are beneficiaries of the government aid.
Although Malaysia had partially lifted the chicken export ban, allowing poultry importers in Singapore to resume bringing in live“We can sell these but the profit won't be much, the chickens are too expensive and there are too few people who would want to buy them.” “We can only wait for what the government has to say... if we have support, it is good, but we really don't know what is going to happen.” Chua Boon Leng, 52, a poultry seller at the wet market in Tekka Centre, said that he “didn't think so much” about whether the government would provide support.
Ma Chin Chew, chief executive officer of abattoir Hup Heng Poultry Industries, said the logistics companies that he had contracted to transport the chickens from Malaysia to his factory, or from his factory to the markets, have largely stopped operations with no support provided.For his firm, he said: “ is better than if there was no support, and it will definitely help.” He added that a company with many foreign workers can save a “substantial amount” with the waiver.
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