Farmers say the price of eggs has fallen at a loss or rebounded in the second half of the year.

Eggs per jin are 50 cents cheaper than they were a month ago.

The consumer shouted "lower the egg price", but the farmer said "it's a loss".

The total cost of an egg in Wuhan is 0.51 yuan.

The price of eggs in Wuhan fell after the Spring Festival, and it has been cheaper by more than 40 cents per jin in the past month or so. Some citizens hope that "egg prices will fall more violently", while some farmers say that "egg prices have fallen at a loss". According to industry insiders, egg prices in Wuhan have fallen into a "strange circle" of periodic ups and downs in recent years. People in Wuhan can eat cheap eggs this spring, but they should be on guard against a possible rebound in egg prices in the second half of the year.

Farmers say the price of eggs has fallen at a loss or rebounded in the second half of the year.

Eggs are more than 50 cents cheaper per jin.

Consumers still want egg prices to continue to fall.

"4.88 yuan per jin, which is 20 cents cheaper than at the beginning of this month." Yesterday, Gao Xin's mother-in-law, who went to the Hanyang Wuli vegetable market to buy eggs, said that the price of eggs had dropped recently, and it would be nice if they could continue to do so.

In some supermarkets, the reporter saw that eggs at special prices can be bought for less than 4.5 yuan per jin. More than a month ago, the price of eggs was basically more than 5 yuan. The monitoring data of Wuhan Price Bureau also showed that last week, the average retail price of improved varieties of eggs in our city's market was 4.8 yuan / jin, which was about 10% cheaper than the 5.33 yuan / jin on February 8.

The current round of egg price decline is nationwide. Xinhua News Agency systematically monitors the prices of agricultural and sideline products and agricultural materials across the country. Compared with February 11, the national average daily price of eggs on March 23 fell by more than 10%. With the exception of Hainan, egg prices are falling in all provinces, autonomous regions and cities, with Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Henan, Hunan and Chongqing among the top declines, between 15% and 20%.

In the face of falling egg prices, some consumers in Wuhan shouted, "fall more violently." Some customers said that the cheapest eggs cost 3.7 yuan per jin in the first half of last year, and they hope that the price of eggs will fall to the same price this year.

The egg price falls below the cost price.

Farmers complain that they are going to lose money.

"after the Spring Festival, egg prices begin to fall, and if they fall again, they will lose money." Yesterday, Chen Shuangquan, a farmer of Xinzhou Shuangquan chicken farming professional cooperative, complained that now the wholesale price of a jin of eggs is between 3.55 yuan and 3.6 yuan, which is no longer profitable.

Chen Shuangquan reckoned with his fingers that a chicken needs to eat 22-3 taels of feed a day. At present, a ton of feed costs 3000-3100 yuan, and the feed cost of an egg is about 0.45 yuan. According to seven eggs per jin, plus the cost of labor, water and electricity, and other breeding costs, it is necessary to sell at least 3.6 yuan to maintain capital, and the total cost of each egg is 0.51 yuan. "now the selling price of eggs is near the profit-loss line, and some farmers have begun to lose money." Chen Shuangquan is very helpless.

"the reduction in the price of eggs is mainly caused by an oversupply in the market." Chen Haiqing, general manager of Wuhan Mulan Rural Poultry Egg Company, said that in the second half of last year, the wholesale price of eggs rose to 4.4 yuan per jin, and many farmers saw high profits and increased their production. Now these laying hens lay a lot of eggs, and egg consumption is off-season after the Spring Festival, resulting in lower egg prices.

Chen Shuangquan said that there are six or seven farmers in his chicken cooperative, and the stock of laying hens last year was about 60, 000. At present, there are nearly 100000. "the market was so good in the second half of last year that everyone wanted to raise more chickens to make money." Chen Shuangquan said:'I didn't expect that egg prices are going to lose money again.

Experts say they can eat cheap eggs this spring.

Beware of a rebound in egg prices in the second half of the year

In the first half of last year, the retail price of eggs in Wuhan market was as low as 3.7 yuan per jin, but in the second half of last year, egg prices rebounded strongly, selling as high as 5.5 yuan per catty. Looking back, Jiangcheng eggs were once cheap to about 4.2 yuan per jin in the first half of 2011, and then rose all the way, reaching a maximum of 5.5 yuan in September and October of that year.

"it went up after a big fall, and then fell after a big rise." Chen Haiqing said that the trajectory of egg prices in Wuhan in recent years is a cyclical "strange circle". At present, egg prices have fallen too sharply, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Many farmers in Wuhan follow the trend of breeding, laying hens from raising to laying, the cycle is only about 150 days, when the market is good, egg prices are high, when there is a profit, farmers rush to buy a large number of chicken seedlings to raise. On the contrary, they retreated in a rush and reduced their breeding. The rise and fall of egg prices is ultimately determined by market supply and demand. Farmers follow the trend, so that the relationship between supply and demand in the market is easy to be one-sided in a certain period of time, leading to a sharp rise and fall alternately.