Kolkata: The retail price of chicken and eggs has reached the peak witnessed a year ago following the Kuncian.
While the price escalation is then caused by a lack of supply due to transportation problems, the current increase is due to the increase in production and transportation costs.
The retail price of chicken dress up from Rs 200 to Rs 250 per kg while boneless chicken has increased from Rs 300 to Rs 330 per kg.
The price of drumsticks has increased from RS 230 per kg to Rs 260 per kg.
“Given the current trend, prices might rise further,” said Secretary of the New Market Traders Saukat Ali Chicken Traders.
Wholesale chicken prices have risen at least 30% to cross RS 230 for the first time in more than a year after a sharp increase in the cost of corn and soybeans used as feed on poultry farms.
The price of eggs also rose from the hospital.
5.50 per piece up to between Rs 6 and Rs.6.50.
“Eggs are now sold with Rs 75-Rs 80 per dozen in the retail market.
The wholesale price is somewhere around Rs 5.75 per piece,” said an official of the National Egg Coordination Committee.
According to sellers in the city market, the price of chicken has hovered around Rs 200 even two weeks ago.
“I sold chicken with Rs 200 per kg until a few days ago.
Now it has reached Rs 260 per kg,” said Satyajit Sinha Roy, a chicken seller in the lake market.
Behala Market vendor said he sold chicken dress with Rs 250 and boneless chicken at Rs 360 per kg.
In Janbazar, the pace of chicken dressed floated between Rs 250 and Rs 270.
“Managing the family budget has become difficult.
How did the middle class household survive?” Said Golpark Resident Shyamali Bose.
Deputy Deputy Federation of West Benggal Poultry Federation, said poultry farms have been forced to climb chicken prices because the cost of corn has risen 60% from Rs 12-Hospital 13 per kg to Rs 20 per kg while it increases more than 40% from RS 32-RS 35 per kg to rs 46-rs 48 per kg.
In addition, transportation costs increase due to rising fuel prices and more stringent monitoring to curb overload.
“There are excess chicken production in the state.
But prices have risen due to a sustainable increase in production costs,” said the watershed.
West Bengal Poultry & Egg Federation Secretary General Mātan Mohan Maity said most raw materials for poultry food, such as soybean cakes, sunflower cakes, beans and corn cakes, were bought from Maharashtra, Punjab and Haryana.
“Because of the increasing price of fuel and weight restrictions on goods carriages, production costs have soared.
After fresh raw materials are produced in our country in November, the price of poultry food will also go down.”