Consumers visiting their usual supermarkets recently The most economical egg bucket.
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What used to cost 18,000 or 20,000 pesos for the Triple A variety has dropped to 10,000 or 11,000 pesos. In some cases, social media users are even reporting it for as much as 9,000 pesos.
Reason? As he told EL TIEMPO Gonzalo Moreno, president of the National Poultry Farmers Federation of Colombia (Fenavi) It is normal for egg prices to drop at this time of year, depending on supply and demand. Like this, The union hopes that this situation will be corrected again in the coming weeks.
“The last two weeks of December saw a decline in consumption due to the holidays, which could hurt January stocks. “This situation happens every year around this time,” he explained.
Although there is a decrease in grain and input prices, this is not the reason for the decrease in egg prices.
Moreno points out that raw material costs have not yet reached pre-crisis levels. covid-19 pandemic.
“The current price per tonne of corn is at the same level as in October 2020, post-pandemic,” he says.
Balanced food that birds eat consists of: corn, sorghum and soybeans –all of these inputs are imported–and constitute an average of 75 percent of the cost. The remaining 25 percent comes from the transportation, fuel and packaging required to bring the eggs to market.
The union president also announced Egg production has already recovered How much of a blow the national strike dealt to the industry.
We must not forget the blockades in 2021 It left more than 14 million dead birds Increased costs due to food shortages and impact on the entire production chain.
Source: Exame
