There are about twenty days left until Easter, which falls on the same date this year, and poultry farmers in our country say that there will be enough eggs for the upcoming holidays. However, they also announce that after the holidays, the prices of this foodstuff are expected to increase by about 10 percent.
The market in Bijeljina has a rich offer of domestic eggs these days. As they say, due to the Easter fast, demand was somewhat lower, but citizens are slowly starting to purchase for the upcoming holidays. Although there is a shortage of eggs in the surrounding area, poultry farmers in our country say that for now there are sufficient quantities on the domestic market.
JOVAN RAKIĆ, Deputy Director of the company “Rakić komerc”: “We feel that there is a surplus to some extent, which is reflected in the price, which has been constantly decreasing slightly in the last eight quarters. The region is experiencing a reverse trend of egg shortages due to the emergence of certain epizitiological infectious diseases.”
While vendors sell three eggs for a mark at the market, a pack of ten eggs in the store costs about four marks.
The current price of eggs will last until the holidays, and after the holidays, the price of this food can be expected to increase. The cost of labor, electricity, animal feed and much more goes into one egg that costs about thirty pfennigs. One of the reasons that producers also cite when mentioning the increase in the price of eggs is the fact that in BiH, as they say, we pay the cheapest eggs in the region”
“There are indications that prices should go up because these critical inputs are constantly going up for us from month to month and week to week,” Rakic says.
Although there is justification for prices to go up due to rising costs, with the shortage of eggs in Europe, producers still do not dare to say with certainty how it will all look after the holidays, BHRT writes.
