Chitwan. With the increase in extreme heat, egg production has decreased, leading to an increase in demand. The price has increased with an average production decrease of 25 percent compared to the past.
According to Dr. Anant Dahal, Associate Professor at the University of Agriculture and Forestry, Rampur, egg production has also decreased due to the heat as chickens eat less feed. ‘Production has decreased by about 25 percent. Diseases appear in this season, and when humidity increases due to rain, heat stress increases in chickens. Which reduces production,’ he said.
According to Binod Pokharel, Central President of the Nepal Layers Poultry Farmers Association, it has become difficult to meet demand after the decrease in production. The association has fixed the support price to be implemented from today. According to the increased support price, the farm price of Chitwan has been set at 480 per large and 450 per medium. Both have increased by 30 per crate.
Chairman Pokharel said that traders sell it at wholesale prices, with a large carton (seven crates) for Rs 3,540 and a medium carton for Rs 3,330. Four months ago, 40,000 cartons of eggs were produced daily, but now it has dropped to 28,000 to 30,000.
With the increase in feed prices and the decrease in egg prices, many farmers have sold chickens and have not been able to raise new chicks. Production has also decreased because many have sold mother hens because they could not afford the drop in egg prices.
Chairman Pokharel says that many farmers have even been displaced. Last year, the price of eggs, which reached Rs 525 per kilogram, had fallen to Rs 350. In Nepal, the cost price of eggs is Rs 16.56 per kilogram. According to Dr. Bijay Kumar Shrestha, head of the National Poultry Disease Research Laboratory, Bharatpur, samples brought here from Chitwan and surrounding districts have shown infection with H9 (H90) disease in 50 farms.
Along with this, there are problems like cholera and salmonella. Due to which egg production has decreased, he said. During the rainy season, with the intense heat, diseases increase due to moldy food and production decreases, said Dr. Shrestha, head of the National Poultry Disease Research Laboratory, Bharatpur.
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