Ten fodder factory owners plan to have a meeting in Riyadh in the next two days to work out a plan to reduce the price of fodder and its byproducts after receiving detailed lists from the Ministry of Agriculture. This includes lists of the subsidies for the primary materials used in the local production of fodder. After King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, ordered a 50 percent subsidy on fodder, it was inevitable that the prices will go down. Sharf Al-Shourfa, sales manager at a fodder factory in Dammam, said the participants will not discuss setting one price because the percentage of the subsidy differs from one factory to another. He said the production capacity of fodder factories in the Kingdom is 10 million tons per annum, with poultry and livestock farms representing 60 and 40 percent of consumption respectively. __
