About 200 egg producers closed their farms due to lack of chicken replacement in the Dominican Republic

The president of the National Association of Egg Producers, asked the Government to reform the Poultry Commission so that together with producers, national production is fixed and that decisions are not taken by entrepreneurs. “We want to participate in the production of table eggs and for the National Poultry Commission to be reconstituted so that the quantity to be produced is discussed between the Government and the producers in that Commission, and not the quantity determined by the private sector that it wants to monopolize. the production. and that prices are fixed based on scarcity, "he said during an interview on the El Despertador program. He indicated that 80 eggs are received per day from 100 laying hens. Manuel Escaño ensured that 200 producers in the sector closed their farms for lack of replacement of chickens. National production is 7 million units of eggs per day and 200 million units per month, of which 40 million are imported into Haiti. Currently, eggs are sold ...