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Date Published: 23/06/2022

ARCHIVED - Farmers forecast a chicken shortage in Spain by October

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The farming sector in Spain has accumulated losses of 32 million euros

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Farmers forecast a chicken shortage in Spain by October

Quite aside from the perpetual rise in prices being experienced for the past several months in Spain, numerous food products are in extremely short supply, pushing up costs even further. The latest blow to the Spanish economy has come from poultry farmers, who warned this week that chicken is likely to become scarce by October if the income of agricultural workers isn’t increased.

The Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) has highlighted the “critical” state of the sector, which has accumulated losses of more than 32 million euros; the recent heatwave hasn’t helped as farmers struggle to cool their chicken coops amid rising electricity costs, plummeting the profitability of farms and making their survival completely unviable.

The UPA points out that although consumers are paying 35% more for chicken than they did a few months ago, farmers are still losing between 0.13 and 0.15 euros per chicken. If this situation is not corrected, the losses could be close to 75 million euros by the end of the year.

“A farmer cannot charge less than 0.55 or 0.60 euros for a chicken,” a union representative stressed, and demanded that the government comply with the Food Chain Law and cover the production costs of the agricultural sector.

The Spanish Interprofessional Association of Poultry (Avianza), which represents 90% of the production of chicken, turkey and quail meat in Spain, has made a “call for responsibility” from the entire industry, claiming that talk of food shortages in these already uncertain times could cause panic amongst consumers.

In a statement following the UPA’s prediction that less chicken will be available for sale in the autumn, Avianza acknowledged that since the beginning of the pandemic, the sector has been punished by the increase in raw materials for the production of feed, energy, transport, additional sanitary control measures and a rise in supply costs, all exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and transport strikes.

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