Chicken is one of the most present foods on the Peruvian table and has become more expensive until its price increased by S/1.3 in the last month, reaching S/11.87 on average, according to data from the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri).
Said price, however, could rise even more in the following two months, reaching up to S/15 soles. This has been warned by the Association of Poultry Farmers of the South (Avisur).
In this context, the egg is also another food at risk of becoming more expensive and could reach up to S/12.
The reason for this upside risk would be the effect of bird flu on the industry.
In accordance with Alex Jerí, representative of the poultry unionthis disease has affected approximately half a million breeding hens.
In turn, Jeri said that it was “more or less 15 or 16 million baby chickens lost per month.”
Such a situation would have made it necessary to start importing both eggs and chickens.
According to the head of Midagri, Nelly Paredes, 2 million ready-to-hatch eggs have arrived so far and it is expected that in the next three weeks the number of imports will reach 17 million fertile eggs.
