French egg producers want to keep up with growing demand

French egg producers are, over the next 6 years, going to invest €300 million in over 300 new sheds, or almost one a week, in order to keep production in line with the growing consumption of eggs. By producing more in France, the organisation for the promotion of eggs, CNPO, wants to keep foreign competitors out of the market. “The self-sufficiency rate for eggs in our country currently stands at 99% – we want to keep it at least at that level,” CNPO says. Last year, the French consumed the equivalent of 224 eggs per head, of which 45% at home, 41% as Ovo products (e.g., processed eggs in bakery products, pasta, etc.) and 12% in restaurants or other out-of-home places. The total consumption was 3% higher than in 2022, while production increased by 4% to 14.3 billion eggs. With that figure, France remained the largest producer of eggs in the EU, before Spain and Germany. An anti-crisis foodstuff French consumers consider eggs as the cheapest source of protein and a typical ...