This Saturday, the Egg Traders Association will forcefully pass the Egg Price Evaluation Committee to raise the price of eggs by 3 yuan. On the 27th, the wholesale price will be raised to 58 yuan first, and the price of the egg harvested by the egg farmer will be raised three days later. Some egg farmers questioned whose pocket the profit difference is going into, and thought that the Egg Merchants Association should make it clear.

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[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Taipei Report] The wholesale price of domestic eggs has reached a historically high price of 55 yuan per catty. According to this newspaper, the Egg Merchants Association will forcefully approve an increase of 3 yuan this Saturday by the Egg Price Review Committee, and the 27 On a daily basis, the wholesale price must be raised to 58 yuan first, and the price of the land where the eggs are harvested will be raised three days later. Some egg farmers have questioned whose pocket the profit difference is going into, and think that the Egg Merchants Association should make it clear.

With the steady warming of the weather, according to the egg production and sales information released by the Chicken Association, the Agricultural Committee shows that my country's egg production has rebounded for the first time since December last year, and the daily output has reached 112,000 boxes (200 eggs per box). The weekly increase is 1,000 boxes. It is understood that despite the increase in production, the Egg Merchants Association will raise the egg price by another 3 yuan at the Egg Price Evaluation Committee held this Saturday, and the wholesale price will first be raised to 58 yuan per catty. , It will take three days to adjust the current egg production land price of 45.5 yuan per catty. At that time, it will be said that the price increase will be used to solve the black market chaos.

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The Egg Merchants Association advocates raising the price of eggs again. It is understood that not all egg merchants agree, and some egg merchants do not agree with further price increases. The anonymous egg merchant said that this price increase is the proposition of a few egg merchants, and it is also The problem of the black market cannot be solved. The so-called "black market theory" is only to manipulate prices.

An unnamed egg farmer surnamed L said bluntly that although the current production price of eggs is 45.5 yuan per catty, the actual price of eggs harvested in the production area has far exceeded 51 yuan per catty, and some people even shouted 75 yuan, he revealed that in terms of his own laying hen farm, because the actual egg price in the producing area is high, the cost of each egg is about 3 yuan, and the income is already guaranteed. He also said that if the egg price review committee decides to increase the wholesale price first It will take a few days to increase the price of production land. "Whose pocket is the profit difference in the middle? Of course the egg merchant!"

The egg farmer said that with the soaring egg prices, more and more consumers have directly become members of the ranch to make an appointment to buy eggs, which is equivalent to bypassing the egg merchants. "The industrial structure is now being reshuffled."

The Egg Merchants Association originally planned to adjust the egg price last week. After the Egg Price Evaluation Committee composed of representatives of egg merchants and egg farmers decided not to increase the price, the Egg Merchants Association accused the outside world of pressure from the Council of Agriculture and threatened that if this week If the egg price is no longer adjusted, the market will be closed (no quotation), but even if the Egg Merchants Association does not quote, the Council of Agriculture has pointed out before that eggs are still traded every day, and imported eggs will arrive in Taiwan one after another. By the end of March, 5 million will be imported eggs, 30 million eggs will be imported each in April and May.