price has already exceeded 200 pesos per kilo

He precio from poultry breast of pollo ‘it’s going to fly’ in Mexico and it’s already reached more than 200 pesos per kilo; In just a couple of weeks, she racked up a record increase of more than 80% in chicken shops, markets public and supermarkets from the country.

Chicken distributors explained to meter that Mexican families paid up to 160 pesos per kilo of the product in the canals of the trade traditional, during the days prior to Thursday and Friday of the Easter.

This price represented an increase of 79.77%, compared to the cost observed between the first and second week of Marchwhen the food It oscillated in an average range of 80 to 89 pesos per kilogram.

Ana Laura Hernández, manager of a chicken distributor, with operations in the Mexico’s valleypointed out that the poultry breast closed last weekend and will begin this Monday with a precio maximum to the public of 140 to 160 pesos per kilo.

He stressed that “it is still not very clear” if the cost of the pollo and, in particular, the breast, will decrease during the next few days, because the effects of the increase in demand persist and consumption of the product that Holy Week brings, when people avoid the consumption of red meat.

Furthermore, he noted, the food is affected by a drop in production which is associated with the effects of “hello of heat” that the country is experiencing and the increase in costs of food and freight o transport from birds to the most important cities or urban areas.

“At the beginning of March, in the traditional channel he precio of the breast pollo It reached between 80 and 90 pesos per kilo; In the last week of that month it rose to 160 pesos and, if it drops in the first week of April, it will be 10 or 20 pesos at most.

“People should be careful both in the quality As the precio, because there is chicken that is left behind or that arrives drowned at the distribution points, which is sold for 75 pesos; while in the supermarkets “They can pay more than 170 or 180 pesos for a kilo of breast,” warned Ana Laura Hernández.

Brisket at 205 pesos in the supermarket

The Federal Consumer Prosecutor’s Office (Profeco) reported that chicken breast escalated to outrageous prices from 193 to 205 pesos per kilo in stores self service and supermarkets in the country.

Through the Internet microsite Who’s who in prices, He pointed out that said product reached a price of 196 to 205 pesos per kilo in commercial stores in the city of Morelia, Michoacan.

While, in more than a dozen stores and supermarkets in the Mexico City and the metropolitan area consumers They paid up to 189 or 196 pesos per kilogram of food, in fillet or boneless.

The Profeco indicated that the third area of ​​the country with the highest cost of brisket was Meridawith a level of 189 pesos per kilogram, followed by the modern channel of Cancun and Tijuana, where a maximum of 184 and 182 pesos per kilo was observed, respectively.

He highlighted that, in the case of urban areas such as Guadalajara, the average price ranged between 173 and 189 pesos per kilo; while in Monterrey It was between 127 and 189 pesos for a kilogram of breast.

The reports of the Profeco They highlighted that the variations in the cost of chicken breast in supermarkets is explained by the presentation of the product: with boneboneless, with furwithout skin, in fillet, in medallions or “American cut”; Besides the quality, brand and type of store.

Price of chicken in pieces and whole

The place Who’s who in prices reported:

Thigh leg kilo

• Querétaro: 81.86 pesos
• Guadalajara: 80.61 pesos
• Merida: 76.98 pesos
• Morelia: 76.86 pesos
• Mexico City: 75.87 pesos
• Cancun: 61.93 pesos
• Tijuana: 33.45 pesos

Whole kilo of chicken

• Guadalajara: 32.88 to 59.25 pesos
• Querétaro: 44.72 to 50.68 pesos
• Tijuana: 44 to 46.09 pesos
• Morelia: 39.92 to 45.54 pesos
• Mexico City: 38.74 to 45 pesos
• Cancun: 36.47 to 44.39 pesos
• Mérida: 32.97 to 42.67 pesos