Egypt: Craze in poultry prices during Ramadan

August 23, 2010

Lack of supply due to the heat wave the past few days and the bird flu led clearly to raise prices as officials emphasize .. At the same time did not come importer Alternatively, or in a row the consumer, especially as the market price does not differ from the price of live poultry to be sold kilogram of b £ 18 . to keep the citizen at a loss if the poultry market .

Major General Abdul Ghaffar Youssef - chief executive of the Stock Exchange poultry - says : already witnessing the poultry market instability in prices and this was due to two main reasons: first, the heat wave that hit us the last period, which reached on some days, 46 and 48 degrees, which really affected the development of poultry in the farms that it resulted in many lost especially small farms, which is the equipment is weak and contains conditioning or ventilators because of their high cost in turn led to the large losses of poultry and thus to a lack of proportion displayed in the markets and make breeders with large losses .
And adds a second reason which caused an increase in prices is bird flu, which we consider to impact on the poultry market by 80% especially after we made sure that the vaccine has been used to treat the disease was ineffective, causing the resettlement of the disease to have because of vaccines that have not not fit the disease have .. indicates we are awaiting the production of the new vaccine, which is expected to arrive during 6 months later to begin a new stage of production and is set to the market situation and prices .

And noted that our products now 5.1 million chickens, of course, is dropped from the previous period after it exceeds two million .. adding that it would not winged importer of high citizen poultry market, but has become competitive in price as it reached to the kilogram of 18 pounds, and so far, there is great demand because consumers still prefer domestic poultry .

He adds Ghaffar Youssef said poultry prices Municipal witnessed an increased significantly after the price per kilogram to 02 pounds a difference of one pound, only the prices for poultry, white, netting 91 pounds per kilo, pointing out that one of the reasons for the high poultry prices due to the higher rate of delivery from farms to dealers as it hit This price 31 pounds per kilo after it was over the past months are recognized at 9 pounds as well as also seen prices of chicks increased significantly as the price of chick farm 8 pounds, while the price before the price rises estimated 3 pounds per chick .

Stresses Naji Congratulations shop owner poultry that breeder and trader of controlling the price The seller is not powerless, and the percentage of sales affected somewhat by higher oil prices as a result of the heat wave experienced by the country recently as the chick rises above 8 pounds instead of pounds and a half pound .

And adds Afifi Mahmoud - owner of a chicken - that rise in the price of poultry simple compared to meat red at the same time can not be dispensed with as a type of protein and the reasons for this increase is due to several reasons including the high price of poultry feed in addition to a high degree of temperature, especially in small farms that do not contain adequate means such as ventilation to keep the poultry owned Aktrmen 50 % educators .