June hatching to over 140 million pieces
According to the Young Journalists Club; The vice president of Poultry Farmers’ Union said: Based on the estimates, Khordad hatching will be over 140 million pieces.
Seyed Sadruddin Azimi said: Due to the high volume of production and the decrease in demand, the price of live chicken has taken a downward trend, which has led to losses for poultry farmers.
He announced the average price of each kilo of live chicken to be 50 to 52 thousand tomans and added: Estimates indicate that it will reach less than 50 thousand tomans in the coming days.
Azimi continued: According to the estimates, June hatching will be more than 140 million pieces, and based on this, not only do we not have a problem with supply and production, but measures should be taken for excess supply in order to reduce the losses of poultry farmers.
The vice president of the Poultry Farmers’ Union considered the purchase of chicken support as a temporary solution to regulate the market and added: Considering that the support of livestock affairs is forced to be offered in the market at some point due to the approaching expiration date of the stored chickens, therefore export is the only support solution for It is the poultry farmers whose infrastructure should be created because in some provinces there is no possibility of chicken depot.
According to him, according to daily statistics, 1,000 tons of surplus chickens are bought and collected from the market by the support of livestock affairs, while due to the volume of hatchings, it should be increased to 2,000 to 3,000 tons.
Stating that there is a potential to produce 3.5 million tons of chickens in the country, Azimi said: 2.5 million tons of chickens are needed in the country this year due to the policy of the Ministry of Jihad, which is expected to increase the hatching volume. that chicken production will reach 2,800,000 to 3 million tons by the end of the year.
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