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Mr Kwadwo Asante, Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers, on Monday appealed to the government to create a buffer stock for yellow corn to help protect the poultry industry. He said the current upsurge in the prices of the commodity on the Ghanaian open market was not only worrying, but was also placing financially a burden on farmers which could have rippling effects on consumers. Mr Asante, who was speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, (GNA) after a meeting of members with Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the Castle, Osu, said 125 kilogrammes of yellow corn, which sold at GHC60.00 in March is now selling at GHC100.00. He said although prices of their products (chicken) had not changed as a result of the high cost of poultry feed farmers would be compelled to do so in the coming weeks if the trend continued.