The decision of the Ministry of Commerce to set maximum producer prices for the sale of live chicken at 5.3 dinars/kg, includes sales at the farmer level, said the president of the National Chamber of Poultry Traders, Ibrahim Nefzaoui, specifying that consumer sales prices remain as they were set during the month of October 2024, i.e. 5 dinars.
He added, Friday, in a statement to the TAP agency that the decision taken Thursday by the Ministry of Commerce will allow the return to activity of 9 small and medium-sized slaughterhouses alongside 4 large slaughterhouses, which will create an environment competitive which (environment) will have a positive impact on the prices of the product.
The Ministry of Trade and Export Development has set, in accordance with a decision published on August 7, 2024, the maximum prices for the sale of ready-to-cook chicken at 7.5 dinars/kg at the slaughterhouse level and at 8.5 dinars at level of the general public, while prices at the level of the first link in the production chain were not determined by the decision.
Still on the price level, Nefzaoui stressed that price control requires more efforts, with the technical advisory commission which has the task of allocating quotas to farmers.
He stressed the need to provide at least 200 thousand mother incubation chickens, adding to the current stock which amounts to 1 million 25 thousand hens.
These measures are necessary, according to the official, to meet the growing demand and improve the monthly rate of consumption of white meat, while the demand reaches approximately 12 thousand 900 tons.
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