Western Cape-based poultry and animal feeds business Quantum Foods says a bigger-than-expected fall in egg prices weighed on its first-half performance, with the group cutting its interim dividend by a quarter.

Egg prices declined sharply, by 7.4%, in the six months to end-March, and the group had been expecting oversupply to weigh on profit margins...

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