Several poultry farmers have definitively ceased their activities. An increase in the prices of poultry meat and eggs has been observed since last August. Food-related expenses represent up to 85% of the cost price, compared to 65% previously.
The poultry sector is struggling to recover following the tumultuous passage of the Covid period. No sooner had she begun to see the end of the tunnel than the war between Ukraine and Russia came to worsen an already fragile situation. To the sharp drop in demand due to the closure of borders, health restrictions, the total or partial shutdown of the hotel and restaurant sector, was added the decline in selling prices precisely because the lack of outlets for the large quantities produced. Other variables amplified this situation described as unprecedented, such as the rise in food prices.compounds, the repercussions of the drought, the increase in the cost of transport and also the rise in the dollar exchange rate.
In this context, “several poultry farmers have partly or even definitively ceased their activities with heavy financial consequences. All these factors have led to a disruption of the mechanisms of supply and demand on the market”, laments Youssef Alaoui, president of the Interprofessional Federation of the poultry sector (FISA). It should be noted, however, that despite this unfavorable situation, there were no supply concerns. The market has always been supplied with poultry products (eggs and poultry), to the detriment of the farmer’s income.
That said, since August, we deplore an increase in the sale price of poultry. At the end of September, ex-farm selling prices in the Casablanca region recorded an average of 17 DH/kg live for broiler chicken, 21 DH/kg live for turkey and 1.04 DH/unit for egg consumption. A few months earlier, prices were at 15 DH; 20.3 DH and 0.86 DH respectively, knowing that in itself these prices were already increasing sharply. If we take a normative year, 2019, the sale price of chicken was 11.9 DH, that of turkey 15 DH and eggs 0.58%.
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