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If you want to be nutritious, eggs are indispensable
If you live at home, do you also find it?
From the year to the present
The price of this egg
It's all the way down
On May 14th, Ms. Pan, a citizen of Nanchang, came to buy vegetables early in the morning as usual, and she had to be careful in her life.
Ms. Pan, a citizen of Nanchang: The weather is hot, and the eggs in the back of spring will be cheaper. Eggs in September, October, and November are expensive, costing 24 yuan a board.
Ms. Wei, who has been in the poultry egg business all year round, told reporters that before more than 20 yuan a board (30 eggs), now only 16 yuan, the wholesale price is all the way down, and now it is the wholesale price of 60 yuan for 100 eggs, that is, 6 cents for an egg.
According to the "Analysis Report on the Market Price Situation in Jiangxi in April 2024" released on May 9, 2024, the average retail prices of poultry eggs per 500 grams in the province in April were 5.28 yuan for eggs and 7.52 yuan for duck eggs, down 5.17% and 3.93% month-on-month and 15.47% and 12.87% year-on-year respectively.
In the "Jiangxi Provincial Residents' Daily Necessities Price Monitoring Report" released on May 13, 2024, the reporter saw that the price of eggs decreased by 15.32% compared with May 11, 2023.
The urban scene reporter learned from the wholesale business houses and supermarket counters that the wholesale and retail prices of white-skinned eggs often bought by the public are not very different. A board of 30 eggs, the wholesale price is 16 yuan, equivalent to 0.53 yuan each; Supermarket retail is 16.8 yuan, which is 0.56 yuan each. Compared with the price of eggs of 0.8 yuan each half a year ago, it has dropped a lot.
As of May 6, the average price of eggs in the main producing areas of the country was 3.34 yuan / catty, down 22.33% from 4.3 yuan / kg at the beginning of the year, and 25.61% from 4.49 yuan / kg in the same period last year. Jiangxi Yufengman Modern Layer Farm is a farm with a scale of 1 million laying hens in De'an County, Jiujiang City, and the egg production rate of their farm is 97%.
Guo Qingshui, director of the farm: It has been falling, and at that time, the eggs were about 100-150 yuan a box, and a box was 360 pieces. After the Chinese New Year, this egg price has not been ideal. At first, it was about 150 or 60 yuan, and then it dropped to 1450 yuan, and farming like this has basically been losing money.
In the interview, Guo Qingshui, the director of the farm, said that on the one hand, these laying hens will not listen to the call, knowing that the price in the market is low and will not lay eggs, on the other hand, the shelf life of eggs is not long, and they can not be hoarded in the warehouse, but can only be sold to the market, and the price is low.
So, what is causing egg prices to go all the way down?
Wang Huogen, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Economics and Management of Jiangxi Agricultural University, and expert of the industrial economic post team of the provincial poultry industry technology system: Then it is said that the entire inventory has increased significantly. The reason for this increase comes from the fact that during the period from 2021 to 2023, the market of the whole laying hen is relatively good. It is precisely because of this kind of market that the scale of farmers is relatively high, that is, its enthusiasm is relatively high.
Professor Wang Huogen analyzed that the rise and fall of prices is fundamentally the result of the impact of demand and supply. Since July 2023, the number of laying hens has continued to increase, and the increase in 2024 will be significantly larger than that in the previous period. In April, the national inventory of laying hens was about 1.24 billion, an increase of 0.07 million month-on-month, an increase of 0.56% month-on-month, and a year-on-year increase of 4.55%, and the number of laying hens is currently at the highest level in recent years.
During this period, the price of corn and soybean meal fell, and the cost of feed decreased, which was also one of the reasons for the high inventory of laying hens. However, Professor Wang Huogen believes that the more important reason lies in demand.
Wang Huogen, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Economics and Management of Jiangxi Agricultural University, and expert of the industrial economic post team of the provincial poultry industry technology system: It is from the perspective of our CPI, in this period of time, in fact, our demand is still insufficient. Because of the lack of demand, the supply is relatively increased, resulting in a relatively large drop in prices. But in fact, as the temperature rises, the egg production of the whole layer will slowly decrease.
Moreover, the decline in egg prices will not be a long-term state.
Wang Huogen, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Economics and Management of Jiangxi Agricultural University, and expert of the industrial economic post team of the provincial poultry industry technology system: In fact, the whole egg is quite regular, and after the Spring Festival every year, it is a peak of egg production. Because in this season, eggs are not easy to preserve because of the high humidity and high temperature, so it is often in the months of January to May, and its price is relatively low. As the temperature slowly rises, especially in autumn, the scale of egg production is relatively declining, and the demand at this time increases, especially the enthusiasm of food companies to procure, so that there is an increase every time, which is basically the case every year.
Monitoring data show that as of May 13, the average price of eggs in the main producing areas of the country was 3.78 yuan / catty, an increase of 15.95% from the beginning of the month. It is expected that egg prices will remain stable in the short term. It is also understood that the recent floods in Brazil, the main soybean producing country, have affected the international soybean meal futures market. With the rise in the price of the cost side, it is bound to lead to the rise of breeding costs, and the price of eggs will rise as a trend.