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Chicken is cheaper than pulses
Chicken is cheaper than pulses. Now, chicken is cheaper than pulses. After hovering around Rs 170 per kg till last month, the price of dressed chicken dipped to less than Rs 100 per kg in the retail market.
The demand for chicken plummeted almost 50 per cent in the last one month with the onset of festive season
Hyderabad : Now, chicken is cheaper than pulses. After hovering around Rs 170 per kg till last month, the price of dressed chicken dipped to less than Rs 100 per kg in the retail market. While black gram, red gram and green gram prices soared from Rs 100 to Rs 160 in the last three months due to drastic fall in pulse production in Telangana, the chicken prices nosedived in the state.
The demand for chicken plummeted almost 50 per cent in the last one month with the festive season (Shravana Masam and Vinayaka Chavithi) and now the nine-day Dasara festival has brought down the demand for the bird meat to all-time low during the last one year in the city as well as in other districts of Telangana.
The demand for chicken per month is around 3.50 crore kg in the state, said National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC) Executive member and Telangana Poultry Federation leader D Sudhakar. The demand went down to 1.80 crore kg in the last three weeks, he added. Chicken prices which were down to Rs 120 in the last three weeks during the Ganesh festival, had gone down to Rs 100 this week.
The prices will dip further before the end of Dasara season. The price per kg chicken will be Rs 85 to Rs 90 in the next 10 days, he said. Even as regular consumers of chicken are happy for the decline in prices, poultry farmers are hit because there is high supply and low demand.
The poultry farmers are selling live birds at a cheaper price to the traders because feeding the birds more than 50 days is a costly affair. “Live birds should be sold within two months after the chicks reared in the poultry. Otherwise, farmers should shell out huge money to feed the birds,” the Federation leader said.
At present, the cost of production is around Rs 80 per kg. The poultry farmers will get break even and profits only when the prices are around Rs 140 in the retail market. Farmers will recover losses incurred on poultry only after the demand increased. The Federation is expecting the sales will improve and demand increases consistently in November.
The prices of the pulses have been increased abnormally as the production declined drastically in the last Kharif and Rabi seasons. The prices of red gram already touched Rs 170 per kg likely to go up to Rs 200 in the coming months as the cultivation has gone down further this kharif.
By Patan Afzal Babu
