CAN BELIZE POULTRY AND EGG COOPERATIVES UNDERSELL YUCATAN PRODUCERS?
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ek Tun <info@ektunbelize.com> wrote:
Feed and gas keep going up here, too... governments and wall
street are driving everybody out of business except the huge
conglomerates. I will probably go the way of Manolo and Alvaro, and
give up and try to cut my losses.... it was a nice hobby for a
while.
At 07:18 AM 8/28/2012 -0600, you wrote:
“According to the Southeast Poultry
Association, there is no shortage of chicken or eggs in Yucatan. In fact,
each week, Yucatan produces 1.5 million broiler chickens and 23.4 million
eggs. This has led some to accuse producers of arbitrarily raising prices
because of the egg shortage in Jalisco. Yucatan’s producers say that the
shortage in Jalisco has nothing to do with the reason their egg prices
have to rise. The problem is that feed and gasoline are going up at an
ever-increasing rate. Feed prices jumped 40% just in the month of July.
Talk of lifting tariffs on imported eggs is frightening to them because
other nations, with producers shored up by farm subsidies, will dump eggs
into the Mexican market. Yucatan’s farmers cannot bring their prices down
and have no subsidies. If they are undersold, they will simply go out of
business and yet another Mexican agricultural industry will fall victim
to unfair international trade practices. So far, it is expected that the
price of eggs will rise to approximately $28 pesos per kilo. Our
thoughts are with Yucatan’s poultry and egg producers as they attempt to
weather this storm.”
Source: Yucatan Living Newsletter
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