Rising Chicken Prices in Peru: Concerns for Families and Factors Behind the Increase

2024-02-21 17:04:02

The price of a kilo of chicken has increased since last Tuesday. According to reports, the meat of this bird fluctuates between S/ 10 and S/ 12. This is generating great concern in Peruvian families, since this product is present on home tables.

Channel N did a brief review of some markets in Metropolitan Lima and showed that the cost of chicken rose between S/ 3 and S/ 4, compared to last week.

According to the sellers, fewer chickens are being bought, since, given the rise in price, housewives prefer to carry less quantities. Even the poultry farmers commented that before they asked for approximately 60 to 70 birds to sell, but now they only request 40.

The price of chicken is a concern for families. (Photo: GEC)

“This is affecting us both in buying and selling. People don’t bring chicken and we don’t order like before because with the heat it dries out and lasts less time,” explained a chicken seller.

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He even mentioned that to try to sell all the merchandise they stay working until 8 at night in order to recover the day’s investment.

In the case of offal, the sellers say that before a kilo cost S/ 5, but now it sells for S/ 7 or S/ 8.

Egg price rose

The Association of Egg Producers of Peru (Aprohperu) explained the rise in the price of eggs is due to several factors. Alex Jerí pointed out that the increase in its cost is due to three main reasons.

“There are several factors here, it is the heat, the climate we are experiencing, and we have been seeing the results of the wrong decisions of the previous government and it is just taking its toll on us. (…) The issue of the Russia war once morest Ukraine, that inputs increased: corn and wheat. We also have the problem of avian flu,” Jerí declared for our media.

Likewise, the increase in prices of basic inputs such as corn and wheat due to the Russia – Ukraine War has also contributed to this situation.

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“We reached 22 million chickens in Peru at the fair and we need 26 million so that supply and demand are on par,” he said in Exitosa.

Product offering in wholesale supply centers

The supply of essential products reached almost 8 thousand tons of fruits and vegetables, highlighting the largest offers in potatoes, cassava, broad beans, lemon, onion, banana, orange, melon, papaya, among others, according to the Ministry of Development. Agrarian and Irrigation (Midagri).

Regarding the total supply of vegetables and fruits to the main wholesale supply markets, the entry of 7,892 tons was reported, adding the reports from the Great Wholesale Market of Lima (GMML) and the Fruit Market No. 2 of La Victoria.

In the case of the GMML, the entry of 5,804 tons of products including legumes, vegetables and tubers was recorded, a figure higher by 1.8% compared to the last four Wednesdays. Likewise, the entry of 1,686 tons of potatoes and their different varieties was reported, an amount greater by 11.8% in relation to the last four Wednesdays. Likewise, stocks are at optimal levels for most products.

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