Custom pricing in the chicken and egg market/ Some sellers do not sell at approved prices.

According to the economic reporter of Fars News Agency, the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad recently announced the prices of chicken and eggs and stressed that the sellers must comply with these prices, otherwise they will be subject to fines and penalties.

Fars reporter’s field investigations of chicken shops in the city indicate that many market sellers do not pay attention to these prices. And currently, the multi-price space dominates the chicken and egg market And this issue has caused people’s dissatisfaction.

It was on May 11 of this year that a member of the board of directors of the Meat Poultry Association of the country announced the approved price of chicken at 73 thousand tomans per kilo in an interview with a Fars reporter. Also, the chairman of the board of directors of the Central Poultry Farmers’ Union of Mehen, in an interview with Fars reporter, said: the price of eggs per kilogram was set at 56 thousand tomans for the consumer and was announced to the markets and chain stores of the country. According to this official, the price of a comb of 30 eggs weighing 1800 grams is in the range of 100 thousand Tomans.

Officials of the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture initially denied this price, but on May 13, the information base of this ministry finally announced the news of the price increase from the Director General of the Office of Inspection and Supervision of Basic Commodities of the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture; According to Masoud Amralahi, based on the agreement made with the relevant association, the price of each kilogram of eggs at the poultry farm was set at 47,300 tomans and the consumer price at 56,000 tomans for the year 1402. With this account, the price of standard shoulder of one kilo and 800 grams is close to 100 thousand tomans.

The Director General of the Office of Inspection and Supervision of Basic Commodities of the Ministry of Jihad and Agriculture announced the new price of hot chicken at 73 thousand tomans per kilo.

Amralahi continued: If the producers face a price higher than the approved rate, it is necessary to submit the goods invoice to the inspection and supervision unit of the province and city for review and, if necessary, to investigate and punish the store.

* High prices of chicken and egg sellers; The approved price does not apply

But 6 days after the official announcement of the new price of chicken and eggs and the drawing of lines by the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad and monitoring and inspection systems for high-priced sellers, the market has a different approach and the sellers of chicken and eggs do not pay attention to the approved rates.

For example, the Fars reporter’s field investigation of the area 30 meters away from the Tehran Air Force indicates that a number of sellers sell chicken at 86,500 tomans and 500 tomans per kilo. Not approved? They said: This rate is for government chicken and free range chicken has its own price.

Fars reporter’s observations indicate that some chicken shops, which were labeled as “chicken for 73 thousand tomans per kilo”, had no chicken in their showcases.

Next, Fars reporter visited the Atka chain store on Imam Khomeini Street in Tehran (Shahid Mostafa Chamran store) to check the price of chicken in this large store.

Whole hot chicken was not available in Atta store, in this store chicken pieces were offered, skinless thigh and breast of fresh chicken weighing 1800 grams was priced at 246 thousand 600 tomans.

* Disorder in the egg market

Failure to comply with the approved price is not only related to the chicken market, but the egg market also has the same situation; The price of eggs, which according to the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad should be around 100 thousand tomans per 30 eggs, is sold for 120 to 130 thousand tomans in many stores.

A middle-aged woman in the 17th district of Tehran, who was leaving a supermarket with an egg comb in her hand, told Fars reporter: I bought this 30-piece egg comb for 120,000 tomans, which means 4,000 tomans per piece. In this area, one of the supermarkets near our house sells eggs for 130 thousand tomans.

At Etka Chamran store in Tehran, the price of 20 egg combs was 74 thousand tomans; Several buyers of this store said that the price of many food products has increased in Inver year (1402) compared to March 1401.

* Buyers’ dissatisfaction with fluctuating prices

Fars reporter’s investigation from 3 regions of Tehran indicates that the buyers of chicken and eggs are complaining about the non-implementation of the approved price and supply at different prices by the sellers.

One of the chicken buyers in the 17th district of Tehran told Fars reporter: Every shop sells chicken at the same price, the single price is not applied, more than the high prices, it is the multiple prices that bother people. When the approved price is announced, I don’t know the reason. What are these different prices? Sometimes people also think that the product that is offered cheaper may be of poor quality, and this itself creates some kind of concern.

One of the buyers in the air force area told Fars reporter: We expect that at least the goods that are known as the food of the poor, such as eggs, will reach the people at a more reasonable price. The pressure of inflation, especially in the food sector, has made the situation difficult for ordinary people. .

Therefore, in the report of these days, we see multi-rate prices not only in chicken and eggs, but also in other food items such as red meat, etc., on the other hand, in other markets as well, such as the car market, this multi-price issue prevails; According to experts, the responsible ministries are not only responsible for setting rates.

According to experts, the custodian institutions have two major duties, firstly, they should make a double effort in reducing production costs so that they don’t have to take all the producer’s profits from people’s pockets, and secondly, they should closely monitor the market in order to prevent some profit-seekers with unrealistic prices. to double the pressure of inflation on the people.

end of message/