REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The Indonesian chicken breeders are not ready to face competition in the 2015 Asian Economic Community (AEC) due to high feeding production costs, the National Poultry Association, Gapanas believed.

"These chicken breeders are not ready to compete in the ASEAN Community because of the high feeding costs, which limits the breeders' capacity in developing their business," said Khalik, one of the association members, on Thursday.

The competition in the ASEAN Economic Community will be pretty tight when a promising foreign businessmen offers them opportunities. Then they will be competing directly in the livestock business.

"If local farmers cannot compete, then they will end up as spectators and their workers will take up jobs with foreign owned companies," he said.