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Why Eggs Went Scarce
posted (July 16, 2013)
You may have noticed a shortage in eggs over the last 2 weeks at your local grocery store. And if you were lucky enough to find eggs, either the price was too high or you were only allowed to buy a certain amount. Well there were several reasons behind this egg shortage – President of the Belize Poultry Association, Orlando Habet, explained and told us that things are almost back to normal when it comes to the egg supply.





Via Telephone: Orlando Habet - Manager, Belize Poultry Association
"Currently there is a shortage, there was a significant shortage and right now the production is going up so that the supply is almost as much as it is used to be before the shortage commenced. Principally the shortage has come down - we had a few problems running where we lost some rare birds in April so the production was slightly low in the month of June and now in July. Secondly, the supply that we have, we have found that there is some from Belize because Guatemala has a shortage and so buyers come from across the border and go store to store to deplete the market and purchase them out. However the industry has put in place some measures as to alleviate the problem and one of them being that those that are grabbed at the end of the day have been kept for another two or three months so that they can continue making and also that has also caused an increase in the price because now the production cost a little bit more than the younger hens. Also we estimate that the problem will end because we normally have, throughout every year, there is a lower demand for egg during the two months vacation when the children are out of school - primary school that is in the month of July and August. Also we have been putting some new birds in March and they come to production just about now so that by the end of July towards the first week of August they are heading towards production so we anticipate that by end of July to the first week of August that the problem will be resolved."

Belizeans eat over 160 eggs per person per year.

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