Industrial chickens sold below production cost

​E. Portal - Last week, industrial chickens continued to have a new price reduction to 24,000 VND per kilogram, decreased about 2 thousand VND per kilogram. At this price, chicken farmers losing from 4 to 6 thousand VND per kilogram.

An industrial chicken farm in Long Thanh district

The reason the price of industrial chickens continued to have a discount on the holidays on April 30 was due to the reduced consumption of the market, especially industrial kitchens, collective kitchens of industrial parks, schools were on holidays, pausing of consumption of this item. Not only industrial chicken item is facing difficulties, for many months now, poultry farmers have been also losing money because the selling price of poultry meat has been lower than the production cost. Specifically, for many months now, the price of free-range chickens has been from 50 to 55 thousand dong per kilogram; the price of colored chickens has been about 38,000 VND per kilogram; the price of duck meat has fluctuated from 38 - 40 thousand VND per kilogram, both have been from 5 to 8 thousand VND per kilogram lower than the production cost.​