Updated Saturday, June 21, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

HK offers compensation to end live chicken trading

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong’s government on Friday offered a major compensation package for chicken farmers and traders to surrender their licences in a bid to prevent further bird flu outbreaks. The compensation reflects the government’s plan to phase out live chicken sales in the southern Chinese city. The package, totalling about 1 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$120 million), was “very reasonable,” health minister York Chow said in a statement.

Under the proposals, each chicken stall-owner would get between 600,000 and 1.5 million dollars in compensation, depending on the size of their stall and turnover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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