According to Khabaronline news agency, in early October, the Poultry Federation announced that despite the allocation of Kalaberg to chicken, the consumption of this protein material has decreased between 25 and 30 percent this year.
The latest statements of poultry industry activists show that in the current situation, about 7 thousand tons of chicken are distributed and consumed in the country every day; However, the reduction of hatching in November and the state of chicken stocks can affect the market balance in the coming months.
Mehdi Yousefkhani, Secretary of the Association of Poultry Slaughterhouses and Packaging Industries, announced that the price of each kilogram of live chicken at the poultry farm is about 230 thousand tomans and the price of hot chicken for the consumer is 350 thousand tomans.
According to him, the price of live chicken fluctuates between 220 and 240 thousand Tomans and hot chicken between 330 and 360 thousand Tomans during the week. According to the announcement of the Secretary of the Association of Poultry Slaughterhouses and Packaging Industries, about 7 thousand tons of chicken are distributed and consumed daily in the country. Of this amount, the share of Tehran province is about 1,600 to 1,700 tons per day; Accordingly, nearly a quarter of the country’s daily chicken consumption is allocated to the capital city.
reduced hatching; An alarm for the coming months?
One of the important changes in the chicken market in November is the reduction in the hatching rate of breeding units. Yusefkhani announced the amount of chicks laid between 115 and 120 million pieces in October and predicted that this number will decrease to 100 to 110 million pieces in November.
This decrease happens in the situation that today’s hatching determines the amount of chicken supply in the coming weeks. Therefore, the reduction of hatching can affect the supply and price of chicken with time interval. Of course, according to this poultry industry activist, the predicted level of November hatching is proportional to the current conditions of supply and demand and does not mean a shortage of chickens.
The chicken stocks reached the maximum capacity
One of the important events of the chicken market in recent days is that the stocks of the Livestock Affairs Support Company are approaching the maximum capacity of the warehouses. Farzad Talakash, the secretary of the Iran Poultry Federation, announced in a report published on November 15th in Ekhtaz24, that the capacity of chicken support reserves is almost full.
According to him, part of these reserves should be re-entered the market due to the expiration date. The supply of frozen stored chicken can help control prices, but it also affects the domestic chicken market.
Talakash has also informed about the problems of providing liquidity to producers after the change in the exchange rate of livestock inputs. This situation has caused some activists of this industry to predict an increase in the price of chicken in the future under the influence of a decrease in hatching, an increase in the exchange rate and an increase in the cost of supplying inputs, while at the moment, the increase in the price of chicken has reduced the purchasing power and the amount of chicken consumption.
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