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Tue, 04/19/2011 - 14:12
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Thailand to defer egg exports to serve domestic demand
BANGKOK, April 19 (TNA) - Thailand's total supply of chicken eggs will increase by 20-30 million units monthly to meet domestic demand, thanks to cooperation from local egg producers and exporters to defer their shipments to overseas markets until October 2011 as requested by the Thai government.
Watcharee Wimuktayon, Director General of the Thai Ministry of Commerce's Department of Internal Trade, said today after a meeting with representatives of local chicken egg traders and producers that most of the local egg businesses, or 90 per cent of them, had agreed with her department's request for their delay of chicken egg exports until October or until the current shortfall is resolved.
Watcharee ensured that domestic supply of chicken eggs will, therefore, increase by 20-30 million units a month until later this year to sufficiently serve domestic demand.
According to the senior Thai Commerce Ministry official, recent Department of Internal Trade nationwide inspections found no irregularities of rising chicken egg prices--which were normally boosted by impacts from severe floods in Thailand's southern region, climate change and increased demand to substitute more expensive pork consumption.
The Internal Trade Department chief said that her department has also joined forces with local entrepreneurs to launch a three-month blue-flag sale programme countrywide--under which cheaper chicken eggs will be retailed some one million units a day to local consumers at 3.10-3.20 baht each, beginning from on Wednesday in some provinces initially. (TNA)
Watcharee Wimuktayon, Director General of the Thai Ministry of Commerce's Department of Internal Trade, said today after a meeting with representatives of local chicken egg traders and producers that most of the local egg businesses, or 90 per cent of them, had agreed with her department's request for their delay of chicken egg exports until October or until the current shortfall is resolved.
Watcharee ensured that domestic supply of chicken eggs will, therefore, increase by 20-30 million units a month until later this year to sufficiently serve domestic demand.
According to the senior Thai Commerce Ministry official, recent Department of Internal Trade nationwide inspections found no irregularities of rising chicken egg prices--which were normally boosted by impacts from severe floods in Thailand's southern region, climate change and increased demand to substitute more expensive pork consumption.
The Internal Trade Department chief said that her department has also joined forces with local entrepreneurs to launch a three-month blue-flag sale programme countrywide--under which cheaper chicken eggs will be retailed some one million units a day to local consumers at 3.10-3.20 baht each, beginning from on Wednesday in some provinces initially. (TNA)
