Why is it difficult to calm the price of "upstart" eggs?

Comprehensive report on three Rural Express: since July, the price of eggs has continued to rise, becoming the "upstart" after pork. According to statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 14th, the price of eggs rose 14.2% in September. Various localities have taken various measures to stabilize egg prices, which have fallen somewhat recently, but they are still up more than 10% compared with last year.

"small, scattered, many" breeding situation, it is difficult to resist rising costs, it is necessary to improve the level of large-scale breeding of laying hens in order to make the price really "calm".

Buy 30 eggs less for 100 yuan

At the Hongbianmen Farmers' Market in Guiyang City, Master Chen bought 100 eggs at a price of 0.85 yuan each. He, who has worked as a banquet contractor for many years, laments: "I have never bought such an expensive egg."

Master Chen calculated that eggs of the same size cost about 0.7 yuan each last year and 0.85 yuan this year. It is also 100 yuan, about 30 eggs less than last year.

Shen Jiang, head of the Information Department of the Wulichong Agricultural products Wholesale Market in Guiyang City, said that since July, the wholesale price of eggs on the market has risen, and at present it is about 10 yuan per kilogram, more than 10 percent higher than the same period last year, and the rate of decline is slow.

Monitoring data show that egg prices across the country have continued to rise since the end of June. Prices began to fall after the Mid-Autumn Festival, with prices falling 3.2% on October 7 compared with September 12. Among them, Shandong, Jiangsu and Beijing had the highest decline, while Guizhou had the highest price in the country, at 13.5 yuan per kilogram. At present, the national egg price is still significantly higher than the same period last year, with a year-on-year increase of 15.7% on October 7.

CPI rose 6.1 per cent year-on-year in September, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 14th. Among food prices, the price of eggs rose by 14.2%, affecting the overall price level to rise by about 0.12 percentage points.

Not only consumers but also vendors feel that the price of eggs is too high to make any money this year.

Vendor Wu Kaimei said that 360 pieces per case are purchased from the wholesale market at a price of 230 yuan to 250 yuan. The freight to the farmers' market is 50 yuan per trip, 20 yuan higher than last year. Excluding the damaged ones, the average price of each egg is 0.76 yuan. To this end, vendors divide eggs into three types: large, medium and small, with individual prices of 0.7 yuan, 0.8 yuan and 0.85 yuan, respectively, in order to make some money.

Layer breeding "small, scattered, many", hard to beat the rising cost

The reporter found that the increase in production and operating costs, the "small, scattered, and many" breeding of laying hens, the failure to form a scale effect, and the weak ability to resist risks, the low level of self-sufficiency in some areas and the long-term high operation of prices are the main reasons for the overall rise in egg prices.

"the most important factor in the price increase this year is the increase in production and operating costs." Zhu Guoan, general manager of Guizhou Liujiang Livestock and Poultry Co., Ltd., said: since the beginning of this summer, Guizhou Province has suffered the worst drought in the same period since 1951. as a result, the price of corn, the main feed for laying hens, is more than 2500 yuan per ton, an increase of nearly 20 percent over the same period last year.

Zhu Guoan said that according to the calculation method of the industry, the production cost of eggs is 3.8 times the price of grain per kilogram, which is more than 9 yuan per kilogram. Sold to the farmers' market, more than 10 yuan per kilogram, excluding the increase in transportation, packaging and other costs, the net profit is about 0.5 yuan, nearly half of the profit when the sales situation is good.

Vendors reflect that the egg industry has been in a state of low profit for a long time, and "small, scattered and more" leads to the poor anti-risk ability of laying hen farmers. Due to the failure to form a scale effect, once costs rise or egg prices fall, some farmers will sell laying hens, resulting in a reduction in supply.

According to Zhang Ruiwen, director of the Animal Husbandry Station of the Guiyang Municipal Committee of Agriculture, every year after Greater Heat, the egg production of laying hens decreases significantly, at the same time, the risk of epidemic disease increases, and the expenditure on heat prevention and cooling and epidemic prevention increases the feeding cost, and the price of eggs often shows an upward trend. Especially before the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncake production has reached a peak, the demand for eggs has increased significantly, the market supply has become more tight, and prices will rise significantly.

In addition, supply in some areas falls short of demand, and the long-term high operation of prices is also one of the factors driving the overall rise in egg prices. For example, the egg import area of Guizhou Province, the self-output is difficult to meet the demand of the province, resulting in a higher price base than some other provinces.