Chicken production falls by 44% in Bolivia

Due to the closure of 40 percent of farms and the increase in soybean meal and hulls, small and medium-sized chicken producers in Bolivia lowered their production by 44%. The little supply caused the price to rise, and in the markets a kilo of poultry meat is sold between 15 and 17 bolivianos. The low production is due to the fact that about 40 percent of the 2,500 farms were closed after the quarantine. This was due to the fact that the price of chicken plummeted due to the oversupply that caused producers to sell a kilo even at 3.5 bolivianos, when their production cost was more than 6. The cost to the final consumer reached 8 bolivianos on kilo. “The increase in the price of chicken is always a function of the availability of the product in the market. 40 percent of our farms have stopped producing and 80 percent of the farmers ran out of capital and the farms cannot be repopulated, ”said the representative of the medium and small chicken producers, Héctor Cordero. To this is ...