Poultry processing began making losses after poultry consumption and retail prices had dropped over the fear of bird flu, Peter Zoltán, representative of the owner Carnex group, said. Zoltán said the plant had piled up hundreds of millions of forints in debts to suppliers and utility providers, so the plant owners decided last week to close the poultry assembly line and lay off its workers. He added that electricity was turned off on Tuesday due to the liquidity problems. Zoltán said talks were underway with both the utility providers and the poultry suppliers since the plant had another 300,000 poultry to process. If talks fail, or unless the government intervenes, the plant may remain shut for good, Zoltán said.
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