In February 2014 there had been a sudden demand for chicken amid a breakout of foot and mouth disease in cattle and pigs, the company said.
Sri Lanka now exported parent breeder chicks, table eggs and hatching eggs. Furkhan said there was room to export chicken meat as current production capacity exceeded demand. There was demand for chicken in the Middle East.
Bairaha said the government had also announced incentives for exporting chicken.
But Sri Lanka's feed prices were high and volatile, making cost of production high and uncompetitive.
The firm said maize which was the main ingredient in feed was subject to import restrictions.
Bairaha said Sri Lankan farmers now produced 60 percent of the maize requirement for feed and there was a plan to produce the entire requirement of soya bean meal as well with a guaranteed price for farmers.
But because corn was a se