“Photo: ukragroconsult.com Prices for eggs in stores change at a kaleidoscopic speed, and not in the direction that buyers would like. Poultry factories destroyed You are already starting to think about how to save on eggs for the holidays, when traditional “Mimosa”, “Crab” and pastries will cost several hundred hryvnias. Hoping that by Christmas and the New Year the numbers will creep down, […]”, — write: businessua.com.ua
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Prices for eggs in stores change at a kaleidoscopic speed, and not in the direction that buyers would like.
Poultry factories were destroyedYou are already starting to think about how to save on eggs for the holidays, when the traditional “Mimosa”, “Crab” and pastries will cost several hundred hryvnias. It is not worth hoping that the numbers will creep down by Christmas and the New Year. God forbid, as experts say, that they descend before Easter.
For Mykhailo Travetskyi, breeding chickens is more of a hobby, but he does keep several hundred birds. Photo: Mykhailo Travetsky’s personal archive
The increase in the price of eggs, as he noted in a conversation with a journalist Briefly about animal husbandry expert, veterinarian and farmer Mykhailo Travetskyi from Pryluk, Chernihiv region, is absolutely predictable.
– The price increase is quite logical, because there are no eggs physically, – he is surprised at the question from Briefly about Mykhailo Travetskyi. – Just look at how many poultry farms “closed” in connection with the war. Second: it’s the season. It got colder, the daylight hours shortened, accordingly, chickens lay fewer eggs.
The largest poultry farm in Europe was destroyed at the beginning of the war – in March 2022. This is the “Chornobaivska” poultry farm, which ended up in the occupied territory. Then about 4.5 million chickens died of hunger and thirst. Workers could not get to the factory to feed the birds. There was no electricity there either. Then the prices of eggs started to rise.
This is not the only loss of a poultry farm in Ukraine – many enterprises were affected, especially in the previously or currently occupied territories. Almost a million poultry died due to shelling of the largest factory in Donetsk region, which produced about half a million eggs every day. This is the “Phoenix” enterprise. The name is symbolic: the owners managed to revive the poultry farm near Sviatohirsk after its destruction in the Luhansk region. At the beginning of this year, only two out of 13 poultry farms were still working in Donetsk region. Poultry farms in Kharkiv, Kherson and other regions were also affected.
Fodder has doubled in priceAnother reason for the increase in the price of eggs is the cost of grain, the main feed for poultry. She also grew. Wheat fields in many “bread” zones of Ukraine were burned due to shelling. Part of the land is not sown for obvious reasons, and where it was possible to sow grain, farmers did not risk harvesting: because of the hellish heat of the mines, as they said Briefly aboutexploded themselves.
– The cost price has increased. Compared to last year, grain prices have doubled, and this is the main feed. This affects the prices of milk, meat, and the same beef. But even potatoes in the bazaar cost 30 hryvnias, and last year they were five. The increase in the price of eggs is natural.
By the way
Eggs are greenMykhailo Travetsky keeps several hundred chickens. Some of them lay eggs not simple, but… green.
– The taste of green eggs is no different from ordinary eggs, but they contain less cholesterol, – explains the farmer. – Their usefulness can be compared with quail.
The farmer sells them ten hryvnias more expensive than ordinary ones – a dozen for 70 hryvnias. In Pryluky, ordinary chickens on the market cost 60 hryvnias, although, for example, in Lviv or Kyiv, you won’t find them everywhere for 70 hryvnias on the markets – the price is close to eight tens. And sellers, sighing, warn that this is not the limit yet. Usually, the frenetic demand for them begins in mid-December. The same sellers predict gloomily: by the New Year, the price may jump up to 100 hryvnias.
Source: kp.ua