The price of eggs reached the highest level in 30 years

The Northeast Network August 31 hearing August 25, Daoli District Heqing Street market, red eggs sold to 10 yuan per kilogram, white skin egg 10.2 yuan per kilogram. An aunt who is holding eggs in a plastic bag and a vendor who sells eggs said she can’t afford it. "The purchase price is high. Now the price of feed has risen, and the field has also gone to Harbin to buy eggs. Egg prices will certainly not be low." Traders selling eggs are also helpless.

Prices have soared on the 25th in recent years. The reporter went to Xinsheng Village, a newly-built Manchu village in Shuangcheng, a city where chickens once lived. Wang Yunxi, a large chicken farmer, said that his family currently has more than 5,000 chickens, of which 3,800 are egg-laying, and more than 1,200 have eggs for more than two months.

To mention the current egg price, Wang Yunxi said that the price is profitable for chicken farmers. Since August last year, the price of eggs has not been lower than 7.4 yuan per kilogram, especially in the recent past, it has been more than 8 yuan per kilogram. . He has been raising chicken for nearly 30 years and has never encountered such a high egg price.

Speaking of why egg prices are so high, Wang Yunxi said the cost has gone up: Now a chicken is 3.2 yuan, before last summer it was 1.8 yuan each -2.2 yuan; corn as feed is now 2.36-2.4 yuan per kg, the same period last year Kg 1.8; Concentrate is now 130 yuan per bag (25 kg), compared with 105 yuan per bag for the same period last year. In addition, once a month, the chickens are vaccinated once again. The price of vaccines is also rising. The frequency of chickens being vaccinated is even higher. Coupled with rising labor costs, egg prices cannot be avoided.

Demand of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Transportation City Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau Director of Animal Husbandry Department Guo made its own judgment on the rise in egg prices: In addition to rising feed prices and labor costs, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the demand for eggs from moon cakes and cake companies is high. In addition, the large amount of foreign transport is also the main reason for the rise in egg prices. Director Guo said that Harbin is the nation's supply base for livestock products. It must not only meet the city's supply, but also provide a large number of eggs to the outside world. Only the Xinsheng egg wholesale market will have to ship about 600 tons of it every day.

However, Director Guo also said that although egg prices are rising, the number of layer chickens in Harbin in the first half of this year was 28.8 million, an increase of 5.1% over the same period of last year, and more than 1,000 tons of eggs can be produced each day, which can fully satisfy the market in Harbin. supply.

The deputy director of the market operation and regulation office of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce said that the supply and demand determine the price. It is now before the Mid-Autumn Festival. The demand is large and not the season of egg production. Egg prices may be loosened after the holiday.

The reporter learned from Heilongjiang Xinsheng Egg & Poultry Distribution Co., Ltd., the largest egg wholesale market in our province, that the market provides 600-700 tons of eggs to Guangzhou, Xiamen and Wenzhou each day.

Boosting the price of meat by affecting the price of eggs Against the high price of eggs, Xu Zemin, deputy director of the Institute of Applied Economics of the Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Social Sciences and a researcher, believes that this is the inevitable result of market operations and it should not be surprising. He said that every 1.5 kilograms of feed can produce 0.5 kilograms of eggs, and rising feed prices will inevitably lead to an increase in egg prices. And this year's increase in pork prices has a direct impact on egg prices. A reasonable range of egg-to-pork price ratios is usually 1:1.8. Recently, the average national price of pork announced by the Ministry of Commerce was 21.62 yuan per kilogram. The Ministry of Agriculture recently announced the average national egg price in the second week of August at 10.51 yuan per kilogram. In this calculation, the price ratio of egg meat is 1:2.06, and the price of eggs has not yet risen over pork. Because pork prices are too high, some consumers have switched to using eggs as substitutes for pork, which has boosted egg prices.

Xu Zemin believes that the high egg prices are due to the fact that the price of eggs was too low. It is unlikely that the price of eggs would return to the low price of five or six yuan per kilogram. Egg prices eventually have to rely on the market to adjust spontaneously.

Chilling expects policy support Although the high price of chicken eggs has helped chicken farmers taste the sweetness, Wang Yunxi, a large chicken farmer, has concerns. He said that I do not know how long this high price level can last. Once the price goes down, the chicken farmers must Facing the winter. He said that Xinsheng Village originally had more than 200 chicken farmers, and the highest peak was 400,000 chickens. However, in the past few years, the price of eggs has been declining. Some farming households with a small number of farmers are not profitable or even lose money. They have abandoned one after another and the whole village has only about 30 households.

Wang Yunxi said that it takes more than 5 months for laying hens to stabilize their production, and the cost before laying eggs is 33 yuan. If you build a large-scale chicken farm with 3,000 chickens, the chicken investment will be 100,000 yuan in the early period. This is not a chicken cage, chicken house and labor costs. Chickens have at least two sets of capital, one for early investment and the other for liquidity. If chickens are trying to catch eggs when their eggs are on the low side, they will have to take in the money. Only farmers who have a large number of farmed and experienced farmers may not lose money. If the liquidity is sufficient, chicken farmers can reserve chicken feed at low corn prices to reduce costs. He hoped that the government could provide chicken farmers with some interest-free or low-interest loans to ensure stable chicken sources and stabilize egg prices.

Xu Zemin proposed several suggestions for reducing egg prices. First of all, to strengthen the management of circulation, it is recommended that large supermarkets directly purchase chickens from chicken farmers, and agricultural supermarkets reduce the intermediate links. Second, to improve the transport environment, open up special green corridors, reduce road and bridge fees, etc., to facilitate farmers to enter the city. Thirdly, referring to the state's subsidy for food and agricultural machinery, and with the policy and financial resources permitted, properly providing feed subsidies to chicken farmers will help increase their enthusiasm for farming.