Use imported chicken eggs to save the egg waste, and the supplementary difference will be purchased by the whole people! Is the egg price rising and the bigger the demand gap?

The Executive Yuan Agriculture Committee has started the project of the imported chicken egg project. Starting on March 10, 2023, it will continue to import 5 million chicken eggs per week and 65 yuan per box of 10 yuan per box to stabilize the market's shortage of eggs and egg prices. However, because there is a daily gap of 2 million eggs, the import volume cannot be effectively solved. The Agricultural Committee is still buying orders for the reduction of import and domestic egg prices.

In order to allow everyone to eat eggs as early as possible and no longer be affected by shortage of eggs, at the same time, the Executive Yuan Agriculture Committee announced that the import of egg products projects will be implemented from March 10, 2023 to December 31, 2023, and is expected to import a total of 8 national chicken eggs to meet market demand. Taiwan is also the first time that it has approved the import of Southeast Asian national chicken eggs such as Thailand and the Philippines.

The supplementary price is still a national purchase order

Taiwan project imported from Australia's first batch of 360,000 chicken eggs will be delivered to Taiwan every week in late February 2023. The Agricultural Committee stated that on March 1, the distribution will be adjusted and distributed to processing operators first. The domestic chicken eggs that were originally supplied to processing operators will be sold in supermarkets. In early April, fresh imported chicken eggs will be provided to egg merchants directly into the supermarket for sale. A box of 10 pieces is expected to be sold at a price of 65 yuan. The various processing costs after import are absorbed by the Agricultural Committee.

Zhang Shouzhong, the head of Dingju Livestock Technology Co., Ltd., said that the original price of 1 kilogram of chicken egg in China was about 4.5 yuan, and if transport, washing and grade were added, it would be about 7 yuan. The first imported Australian chicken eggs were first provided to processing operators as a food or dessert ingredients, with an increase of about NT$11 yuan. Currently, the project import plan is supplemented at the price of the origin and distributed to employees, which is equivalent to the public replenishment of 4 yuan per chicken egg.

Cannot catch up with the bigger demand gap. Imported chicken eggs cannot effectively solve the problem.

Taiwanese people love to eat eggs. In 2020, the demand for chicken eggs has exceeded 8 billion, with an average annual average of 3.5 million eggs. According to the Chicken Egg Sales Data Platform of the Agricultural Committee, the average daily egg production volume in March 2023 was about 111,000 boxes and 22 million eggs, while the peak egg production period was December 2022, with an average daily egg production volume of about 122,000 boxes and 24 million eggs, and the production capacity decreased by about 2 million eggs.

Gaudendi, a professor in the Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, National Tsinghua University, said that due to the recent shortage of eggs in China, the supply has decreased, and consumers are panicking about consumption, resulting in an increase in demand. Even if an average of 5 million eggs is imported every week in the future, the gap of 2 million eggs per day is still unable to effectively deal with actual problems.

"Not only Taiwan is affected by the influence of avian influenza and extreme climate, but Europe and the United States are also famined by the avian influenza. The international market is coordinating and adjusting chicken eggs, so it is forced to buy the fareest country." Zhang Shouzhong believes that if the export volume increases due to the increase in chicken eggs, the domestic egg prices may be jealous of rising international prices. Although imported chicken eggs can help the people in a short period of emergency and calm the hearts of the people in a timely manner, it will not be long-term.

The market price is inadequate, and the price is short of eggs and the price is

Karl, a well-known economic historian of the 20th century. Karl Polanyi once proposed that when the government demonstrates parental charity interference in market operations, it may hinder the spirit of business advancement. Therefore, when the government imports chicken eggs on one hand to reduce the phenomenon of shortage of eggs, the other hand must fill in the import fee difference, try to preserve egg shortage and suppress price increases, and dig east walls and west walls to prevent orderly sales.

The China Consumers Cultural and Educational Foundation (simplified consumer foundation) of the financial group, the legal person of the financial group, said that in early March 2023, it was constantly called by consumers and said that the egg price was too high, up to 150 yuan per catty, and even if you go to 5 or 6, you can’t buy a chicken egg. It also reminded the government not to place wide inspection standards for imported chicken eggs, which affects food safety.

The large factories and the government must let go of clamping and suppressing prices, so that they have the opportunity to eliminate the egg shortage

The Transaction Fair Committee also announced in mid-March that in order to grasp the chicken egg market and prevent operators from taking advantage of the opportunity to raise prices in joint efforts, an inspection has been conducted, including dealers, channel merchants and related public associations, to understand the reasons for the fluctuation of the up, mid- and downstream supply chain egg prices of chicken eggs.

Chicken egg sales price was jointly discussed by the "Taiwan Egg Chicken Industry Supervisor Committee of the China Residential Chicken Association" and set the egg price across Taiwan. Although the egg classification system will be also ordered in the future, and the promotion of sales will be optimized. Huang Wan, a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Application Economics at George Gregory University and a concurrent professor at Tsingmi University, explained in 2017 The agreement to formulate a price model around the year is easy to have an oligopoly market. "The rice price in Taiwan is subject to the government's interference, while the egg price is controlled by the pricing committee. Only by relaxing the oligopoly attitude can we have the opportunity to further deal with the problem of marketing layer, and the problem of egg shortage can we solve it."

Change packaging and micro-price adjustment production Resource dispersion increases the chances of people buying eggs

Zhang Shouzhong also believes that the chicken egg industry should enter the free economic market. Although prices have increased, demand will decline. After a shortage of eggs due to purchase, the production side has also improved its production status. Supply is slowly recovering, and the consumer market is still needed, and the price will not rise in the east and west in an infinite way.

"There are now constant shortage of goods. While maintaining the good quality of the chicken eggs, the original 10-packed chicken eggs can be changed to 6-packed eggs, slightly adjusted from 10-packed 120 yuan to 6-packed 99 yuan, reducing the amount of eggs by 40%. Although each egg increases by 4.5 yuan, it can provide another 40% of the opportunity for consumers to buy chicken eggs.. "Zhang Shouzhong proposed a temporary solution based on the market resource allocation perspective. Originally, 100 people bought it, but the price was a little expensive because the packaging was changed, so 140 people could buy eggs. The United States and Mexico in the past also used to make a price-based price, which made the dilemma of over-purchasing during the egg shortage period.

Choose alternative protein foods. Make good use of eggs to regulate the application of foods.

Gordondi also said that because the price has increased, consumer behavior will have some impact. Originally, eating 1 egg a day may be changed to about 2 days to eat one. At the same time, other protein sources are taken, and other eggs, vegetables, beans or fish meat are replaced. In addition to daily household eggs, Huang Wanshi stores have a large number of fast-food restaurants and food regulators who need to use eggs, so they can use protein powder and egg yellow powder to make them, which is also a food application that can be thoughtful under the lack of eggs.

To resolve the shortage of eggs in the market, the government imports chicken eggs to provide processing operators and egg merchants. It is a good idea that it can only provide short-term emergency relief. When chicken eggs are not easy to produce and adjust, and the price disorder and unknown quality, in addition to choosing other protein sources or changing packaging and increasing per capita purchase chance, the chicken egg industry can easily escape from the hands of price-suppressors and enter the free economic market, so that they can directly overcome the core issues and development of the industry.